Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances..

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life..

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place..

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art..

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal..

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust..

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want ….

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my ….

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal f….

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russi….

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nat….

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by..

Significance is sweet..

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the h….

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the whi….

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time..

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets….

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself..

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if ….

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for ….