“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
“It's true that I considered killing myself, but I thought as I was already standing over the water, that if I considered myself a strong man all along, then let me not be afraid of shame now.”
“What is a mother? In The Brothers Karamazov, a promiscuous lady gets pregnant. After the baby is born, she puts it in a box and hides it behind a wall. When the police arrive, they find three more boxes. Would you still call her a mother?”
“If we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”