Book: Notebook. Page 1

What means this sudden awakening in the middle of the dark room, the noise of the city, suddenly became a stranger? And all I am someone else, all anything close to being and have no place to heal the wound. What am I doing here, what those gestures, those smiles?
I'm not from these parts and not others.
And the world is only an unknown landscape where my heart already finds support. Stranger: who can understand what that word means.
Alien, to recognize that everything is alien to me.

Three years to write a book, five lines to ridicule, - distorting when quoting.

She had lived in ignorance of all, except that of suffering and patience, and even now as meek continues to absorb physical suffering. Creatures not touched any Newspapers, no radio, no other appliances. They were a hundred years ago, any social context is powerless to change them.

Too late to find the courage to accept the fact that you know.

Empire, impending death, teeming with laws.

We truly live only a few hours of our lives.

That day, when it turns out that capable people, raise the question about God. But not before, in any case not earlier than the day when the opportunity will be exhausted before the end. Great deeds are solely for the purpose to multiply the creative power of man.

Medicine and Religion: two crafts which at first glance quite fit together. But today, all is explained, it becomes clear that they are incompatible - and that one should choose one or the other: either relative or absolute. "If I believed in God, I wouldn't have to treat people. If I thought that people can be cured, I wouldn't believe in God."

The main thing that should be able to the writer, to translate the feelings that he experiences, the ones that he wants to inspire. At first he does it by accident. But then, in the place of the event should come talent. So, at the origins of genius is an accident.

In the nearest cinema, sell mints with the words: "You marry me?", "Do you love me?" And there he answers: "Tonight", "Very", etc. They are passed to the neighbor, and she responds in the same manner. Life together begins with the exchange of candy.

Democracy is not the law of the majority, but protection of the minority.

Communism is the logical consequence of Christianity. It is the Christian story.

Faust Vice versa. The young man asks the devil for the riches of this world. Hell gently says to him: "Because of the wealth of this world you belong to. What you lack, you should ask God. You deal with God and the riches of the world, otherwise sell him your body." After a pause, the devil smokes an English cigarette and adds: "And that will be your eternal punishment".

Language, emphasizing the word "passion" its relationship with suffering, rights, although in everyday use, saying "the passion", we mean rather a convulsive fit, which surprises us, and we forget that we are talking about mental suffering.