“Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.”
“The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”
“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”
“Life's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.”
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.”