The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky see...
The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.
Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by the questions: What is it for? What does it lead to? At first it seemed...
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other...
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.
To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and in this consciousness of his necessity every administrator find...
What do you want? What do you want? he repeated to himself. What do I want? To live and not to suffer, he answered. And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not di...
What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the w...
What is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that of my family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of hum...
What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,
You're not racing? joked the officer.Mine is a harder race, Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully.And though the reply did not mean anything, the officer pretended that he had heard a clever phras...
[from ]For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there...
«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?»«Why not? But in that case it is not necessary to procreate together (excuse...
إن المرءاة قد تخدع أشد الناس دهاء وذكاء ، لكن أشد الاطفال غباء يكتشفها ويُعرض عنها، مهما أخفيت ببراعة
اذا قرات روايات واقاصيص شديدة الاغراق في الانفلات او ذهبت الى المسرح الفرنسي وعدت وتحدثت عما شاهدته فانك ستلاقي التشجيع والاطراء وعندما تتحدث عن الحقيقة والفقر والثراء ومشكلات المزراعين لوجد سامعوك كل...
Showing 741 to 760 of 956 results