“The further one goes, the better the land seems. ”

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death”

“But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as some one has said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them.”

“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.”