Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and d….

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twe….

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense.....

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something o….

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - p….

Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool an….

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest..

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry..

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done..

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and consta….

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me..

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must ….

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater re….

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dunghea….

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate ….

Great Jove angry is no longer Jove..

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others..

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me..

Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as….

My holy of holies is the human body..