6 Quotes by Aleksandr Kuprin

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

It wasn’t poverty that drove me on.

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

There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.

Everyone is afraid. But one person falls to pieces from fear, and another person keeps it together. You see: fear remains the same for everyone, but the ability to bear it increases with practice; that is where brave men and heroes come from.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.