Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Failure is only temporary

One did not love revolution. One embraced it with horror for the sake of the deliverance to follow.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.