There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.
There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy. It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
The question was summed up for him thus: If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?
The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.
The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but th...
So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I do it for the sake of my country? And was he to blame with his dimple and his blue eyes?...
Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them...he had...
She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just becau...
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't
People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by forceis a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this questionis presented by life itself to all men, and calls for some answerfrom e...
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
No hay felicidad en la existencia, no hay más que relámpagos de felicidad.
Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed. But that moment...
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall retu...
Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend and companion of his early youth. They were fond of one another in spite of the...
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.