The punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
The greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.
Congratulated or saved?
Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall alwa...
And what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!
[The Devil] My best feelings, gratitude, for example, are formally forbidden solely because of my social position.
You have revealed me to myself. You have seen through me and explained me to myself.
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very most advantageous advantage which we have overlooked, which co...
Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are s...
Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.
It was impossible to tell at first sight whether he loved his meek, obedient wife, Marfa. But he really did lover her, and she knew it.
In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.
I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I...
I create entire romances in my dreams.
How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fel...
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!