In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we wor….

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another..

When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himsel….

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake..

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if….

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life..

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts..

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other..

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpeni….

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wol….

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal..

Love is a scandal of the personal sort..

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships..

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, yo….

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go..

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting..

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work..

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been….