But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.
And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are undoubtably those who see signs of madness in others that they do not see in the...
Although Vasili Andreevich felt quite warm in his two fur coats, especially after struggling in the snow drift, a cold shiver ran down his back on realizing that he must really spend the night where t...
A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
The extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the ey...
If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have come in.Ah, oysters! Stepan Arkadyevich became thoughtful.How if we were to cha...
Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew...
I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies...
I have only to go stubbornly on towards my aim, and I shall attain my end, thought Levin; and it's something to work and take trouble for. This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of...
As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention on his face, as though she were recognizing him, and then pro...
And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price of human suffering contrary to human nature.
And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there ca...