Difficult folk, these women!
Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They’ll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?
Remove the document – and you remove the man.
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
Second freshness – that’s what is nonsense! There is only one freshness – the first – and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
Manuscripts don’t burn.
No documents, no person.
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
Why try to pursue what is completed?
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...
A dog’s spirit dies hard.
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
Literature has become my life.
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit.
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...