What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions….

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quant….

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains..

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs..

One must speak about serious things seriously..

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die..

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions..

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world..

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious..

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human di….

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great tha….

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a rep….

Everyone has the same God; only people differ..

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason..

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Wh….

You will not become a saint through other people's sins..

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it..

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry..

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible..

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does ….