Book: Diary of a writer. Page 5

Cute, kind, honest (you have all of it!), where are you going, why are you so nice was this dark, blind grave? Look at the sky a bright spring sun, blooming trees, and you're tired, not giusi.

Take again, and what now are fighting not so much weapons, as the mind, and you will agree that this last fact is especially disadvantageous for us.

I don't want to be righteous - because I'm cheating myself
I don't want to be a sinner - because I am innocent,
And I don't want to choose - because feelings are equally strong.

Without faith in your soul and its immortality, human existence is unnatural, unthinkable and unbearable.

I love wandering the streets, look close to the other quite a stranger, to study their faces and guess who they are, how they live, what they do and especially them at this moment interested.

I think the most important, most fundamental spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, perpetual and insatiable, everywhere and in everything.

No man is ready to repeat most of the Russian: "what do I care about what I say" or "I don't care about public opinion," and no man would be more Russian (again civilized) more afraid, trembling more General opinion, what you say or think. It comes from deep in this hidden disrespect, with immense, of course, conceit and vanity. These two opposites are always sitting in almost every intelligent Russian, and for the first and unbearable, so that each of them is like "hell in the soul."

Who easily tend to lose respect for others, that first of all respects herself.

Only by understanding the possible perfection of the original material, that is the native language, we'll be able to perfect as possible to and learn a foreign language, but not before.

People, people - the most important thing. People even more money.

If you're going to target and will be the way stop to throw stones at every barking dog you will never reach the goal.