The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.
The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings
So that you remember that you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours.
Satan .
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
Los verdaderos grandes hombres deben de experimentar, a mi entender, una gran tristeza en este mundo
Listen, she said taking my hand. Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a girl who had come to you of herself, you would not have thrown into her face a...
Libertatea deplina va veni atunci cand omului ii va fi absolut egal daca traieste sau daca nu traieste.
It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy ser...
For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suic...
Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...
Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the world over.
Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.
People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel.
Remember young man, unceasingly,' Father Paissy began, without preface, 'that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine...
For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankin...
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.