And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
And what was worst of all was that *It* drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some action but only that he should look at *It*, look it straight in the face: look at it and withou...
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he wi...
And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications...
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Всички щастливи семейства си приличат, всяко нещастно семейство е нещастно по своему.
The very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.
You wait a bit, wait a bit, said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I be...
You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it goes, and turning towards the sun in the course...
Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.
Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy stan...
Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though h...
Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning to the finite existence of man; a meaning that is not destroyed...
What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.
Well, what is that to me? I can't see her! she cried.