What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!.

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating..

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you….

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why chil….

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco..

Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget tha….

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain ali….

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from….

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should impor….

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater..

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles..

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite peopl….

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf..

Brevity - the sister of talent..

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured..

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life..

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost..

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how ….

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and c….

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enj….

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover….