Book: A wandering apprentice

- A woman anyone will win.

But sometimes fear gives courage. Of the two dangers to choose the lesser...

But in the end, Pierre, what you do not trust me?
- No, why, trust it. Only I don't trust you. Because you know no more than I do, I don't know anything.

In each of our lives there are seemingly insignificant events that will forever remain associated with the memory of any crisis in our spiritual development, the transformation of the whole of our moral being; and whatever is subject to our existence is the most sober worldly interests, there is no person who would not have survived such an hour of delight and enlightenment when the soul attains the highest of his burning and the future like unitiy opens our spiritual eyes. Inner world, which we carry within ourselves, hidden from us, he is full of unsolved prophecies, and we only vaguely read it. But there comes a time hits the hour, sometimes it's just a moment when - whether we are talking about faith in God, about the problems of society or of love - the divine light, like lightning, cutting through the darkness, brightly illuminates our minds. The exalted nature and prone to spiritual contemplation, these fractures are made solemnly and signify every time a new phase of their life cycle, conducting a decisive line between mournful "yesterday" and the triumphant "tomorrow". Philosophers and geometricians, immersed in the world of abstractions, these moments of sudden insight are familiar as well as the fanatics of faith, as poets or lovers.

All we bring to love some need to dominate those whom we love, and that makes us intolerant of the slightest fault.

... I married for anyone, except you, will not work. For from now on I belong to you. This I swore before God and their own conscience and oath to this will remain true. Whether it's a year or ten years, but that day, when I'm free, you, Pierre, if only you have enough patience to wait for me until then, will find in my heart the same feelings that live in it now, when we leave you.

No matter how carefully it was chosen by the jury... whatever it is incorruptible, it is not immune from error: the public is not infrequently tend to be in bad taste... and the losers will not recognize themselves worse winners. Therefore, people who believe that competition will bring Union with glory and honor, mistaken and only fooling yourself...