Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal one’s own rottenness and moral poverty is only possible for a very vain, base, and nasty creature.
Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don’t attempt to justify myself. It’s not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time.
MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Women can’t forgive failure.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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 dignity.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart...
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.