Nunca seremos amigos, lo sabe usted de sobra. Seremos las personas más felices o las más desdichadas. De usted depende. (...) Sólo le pido una cosa: que me permita concebir esperanzas y seguir sufrien...
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul, she thought; as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.
Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his personal hope, Princess Marya had in the deepest recess...
Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see h...
Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious express...
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful,...
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
Love... she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: The reason I dislike this word because it means such a great deal to me, far more than you can un...
It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you...
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty years: learning, developing, maturing in body and mind, and how, havin...
If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.
If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!
I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer;but formerly I was dead and only now do I live.
Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugenMeine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!**Splendid if I overcomeMy earthy passion, But if I succeed not, Still I...
He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.
He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity