At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is n ...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or ...

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's t ...

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you f ...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.