"Есть только один надежный способ задавить усталость - собственным телом. Лежащим на кровати."

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -neat, plausible, and wrong."

"В истинно любящем сердце или ревность убивает любовь, или любовь убивает ревность."

"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you."

"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

"Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk."

"Sterben muss man, sonst gar nichts!"

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

"Nichts ist im Menschen, auch im scheinbar 'aufgeklärtesten', fester verwurzelt als der Glaube an irgendwelche Autoritäten."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work."

"Um eine Kultur zu schaffen, genügt es nicht, mit dem Lineal auf die Finger zu klopfen."

"'Und ich habe mich so gefreut!' sagst du vorwurfsvoll, wenn dir eine Hoffnung zerstört wurde. Du hast dich gefreut - ist das nichts?"

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."

"Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way."

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

"Не так-то просто чувствовать себя на высоте, пребывая в подвешенном состоянии."

"Whenever I am awaiting the outcome of peril or reflecting upon the few lessons that can be learned in the course of a misspent life, a few bubbles of memory appear before me, are struck by all the color changes the skin of a bubble undergoes in the space of an instant, burst then, having endured no longer than a bubble, and persist as feelings for a long while after."

"The best way to find new adventures is through new people. Everybody has different experiences and a different background; every person can teach you something new. Maybe that guy sitting across from you at the coffee shop can show you how to climb a mountain. Maybe the old lady in the library can teach you how to preserve fifty pounds of tomatoes. Maybe the quiet girl at the bar can offer you a place to stay with her cousin in Buenos Aires, or Budapest, or Bolivia. Get over your approach anxiety and start talking to people! Who cares if they brush you off? What's the big deal? It isn't going to kill you, right?"

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"Sie wissen, wir leben im Zeitalter der Abkürzungen. Ehe ist die Kurzform für lateinisch 'errare humanum est' ('Irren ist menschlich')."

"You are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it."

"Что скажут о тебе другие, коли ты сам о себе ничего сказать не можешь?"

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"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."

"What the hell's the matter with you...? D'you think love should be deep, dark, gloomy, despairing, like one of those old Russian plays? I didn't think you were that juvenile."

"Je planmäßiger die Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer vermag sie der Zufall treffen."