There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's ca….

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights ….

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second..

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of takin….

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table..

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another..

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth..

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature..

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul..

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children..

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve..

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say..

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set ….

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose it….