He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

Any thought or belief that doesn't suggest the realities of success and happiness in your life, should never be granted the access to dwell in your mind.

This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven.

Whatever you say or do, remember there's always someone watching you.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.

Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.

It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.