And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
You must trust people, or life becomes impossible.[Надо всем верить, иначе жить нельзя.]
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Whoever considers the past and the present will readily observe that all cities and all peoples are and ever have been animated by the same desires and the same passions.
When you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they’ve been doing they weren’t sure it was right – lambies all over the world.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
When people are ill, they have such strange fancies! They are like children, they do not know what they want.
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
What is the city but the people?
What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.
