Всё приходит вовремя для того, кто умеет ждать.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live, Levin said to himself.
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...
When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass.
What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were...
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.
What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
Vengeance is mine, I will repay
Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.
There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important!
There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In order to escape the beast the traveler hides in an empty well, but at the bottom of t...
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those mome...
She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.
Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky.