"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."
"Life did not stop, and one had to live."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"Life did not stop, and one had to live."