18 quotes
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
Without Dogma (1891)
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
Without Dogma (1891)
The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
Without Dogma (1891)
She wanted to be near her husband, and what would become of me was not taken into account.
Without Dogma (1891)
I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her.
Without Dogma (1891)
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.
Without Dogma (1891)
She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.
Without Dogma (1891)
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
Without Dogma (1891)
If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman.
Without Dogma (1891)
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.
Without Dogma (1891)
Kromitzki is dead! The catastrophe has come upon us like a thunderbolt. God keep Aniela from any harm in her present state.
Without Dogma (1891)
It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life.
Without Dogma (1891)
Let there be at once also the end of the world! O God! if that is to be my punishment, I swear I will go away, never to see her again in life, — only save her!
Without Dogma (1891)
I follow you — because I must.
Without Dogma (1891)
I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.
Without Dogma (1891)
In regard to this I have no illusion whatever. I have already said that since she changed our mutual relations into ideal feelings, they have become dear to her. Let it remain thus, provided they be dear to her.
Without Dogma (1891)
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.
Without Dogma (1891)
Do not be afraid, Leon, — I feel much better; but in case anything should happen to me I wanted to leave you something to remember me by. Perhaps I ought not to say it so soon after my husband's death; but as I might die, I wanted to tell you now that I loved you very, very much.
Without Dogma (1891)