In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

That's what children are for that their parents may not be bored.