“It’s when people leave their “place” in the social heirarchy that the trouble starts. It’s when they start getting uppity and rebellious that they invoke the wrath of the complacent and of the powerful.”
“Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deap heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.”
“In short, I deduce that all, not only great men, but even those who are even a tiny bit off the beaten track - that is, who are a tiny bit capable of saying something new - by their very nature cannot fail to be criminals - more or less, to be sure.”
“Nowadays people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it’s too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes.”
“Yet he loved, he wanted to live and he saw himself dying; that is enough to make up a whole man.”
“When we speak of a person getting to grips with himself, accepting himself for what he is, we do not simply mean that he admits and recognizes his weaknesses but that he also discovers how important they were in his evolution.”
“The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.”