"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."
"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."