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Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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Every man has his own way of telling things. If the feeling exists, it will out somehow. But when I read novels, I always fancy that crestfallen look of Lieut. Stelsky or Alfred, when he says 'I love you, Eleanora,' and expects something wonderful to happen at once, and no change at all takes place in either of them -- their eyes and noses and their whole selves remain exactly as they were.

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He went down, trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking. 

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... however much she tried, she could not become stronger than herself. 

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...the craving for positive happiness is implanted in us only to torment us without ever being satisfied.

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