Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once,...
Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?
Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask vir...
Disbelief in the devil is a French notion, a frivolous notion.
Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.
Dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!
But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. II
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. Remember that!
But I’m still curious to know: can you move a mountain or not?’ ‘If God commands it, I will move it,’ Tikhon pronounced with quiet restraint, again beginning to lower his eyes.
But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such a temptation? Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracles and at the great...
Because you're lukewarm, not hot or cold, you'll spill out of my mouth like vomit.
As soon as you have finished telling us anything, you seem to be ashamed of what you've said, Aglaia observed suddenly. Why is that?
As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simplehearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
As a Russian proverb has it, 'Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?
And then it seemed to me that even in prison one might discover an immense life.