Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word, and possessed of a special faculty for working for the public good. But i...
Ivan Ilych had been a colleague of the gentlemen present and was liked by them all. He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be incurable. His post had been kept open for him, but there...
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the wo...
I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of tim...
I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just as the Catholics and others consider the Orthodox to be heretics. And i saw tha...
I love everybody and pity everybody.
I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself...
A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
You conquer me.
Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preach...
Patriotism , as a feeling of exclusive love for one's own people, and as a doctrine of tile virtue of sacrificing one's tranquillity, one's property, and ever, one's life, in defence of one's own peop...
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.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.