Quotes from Aleksandr Kuprin

All I have to say is, people no longer know how to love nowadays.

All I have to say is, people no longer know how to love nowadays. I do not see true love. I didn't see it in my time either!

You transferred your own unfortunate experience onto the entire humankind.

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

You must understand that your daughter's illness is indifference to life, and nothing more....

It is a well-known fact that kings and clowns frequently call each other cousin.

I am old, and solitary as well, and you can't think how long the nights are to us old folk.

Ladies and gentlemen, is there no way Of getting all honourable dogs free, once and for all, from their shameful slavery to mankind

Are human beings so much more worthy and better than we are, that they are allowed to take advantage of so many cruel privileges with impunity?

And, in conclusion, I say that men are hypocrites; they envy one another, they lie, they are inhospitable, cruel.... And yet they rule over us, and will continue to do so ... because it's arranged like that.

Love is the best language tutor.

The wish of a beautiful woman is a law for the rest of the world.

My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.