The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart..

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it..

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we m….

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it..

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patrio….

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and j….

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still ….

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice..

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daug….

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone..

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands st….

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just ….

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold….

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. Yo….

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death..

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything….

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does..

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has br….

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while serva….

I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough ….

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand..