Book: Three years

Artwork then and only significantly useful when it's in its idea contains some kind of serious social problem, - said Kostya, looking angrily at Yartsev. - If the work is a protest against serfdom, or the author of arming against the upper light with its vulgarity, that such a work is much useful. Those novels and stories where Oh yeah Oh, Yes she loved him, and he stopped loving her, - such works, I say, miserable, and damn them.

Without love is impossible in marriage? They say that love passes quickly, and remains one habit and that is the goal of family life not love, not happiness, and duties, for example in the education of children in care on the farm, and so on.

The vulgarity is the desire to appear better than you are.

I am timid before nonentities, idiots, brutes, standing far below me, mental and moral.

Anyway, have to say goodbye to thoughts of happiness. However, once in my life I was happy when he sat in the night under your umbrella.

We all talk and read about love, but little love, and that's right, not good.

It is necessary to put their lives in such conditions that the work was necessary. Without difficulty can not be clean and joyful life.

And don't want to die. No philosophy can reconcile me with death, and I look at it as just destruction. I want to live.

No, when the end, you will not help neither the doctors nor the elders.

He remembered Moscow long conversations in which he had participated so long ago, talking about the fact that without love you can live that passionate love is a psychosis that, finally, there is no love just a physical attraction of the sexes, and all that sort of thing; he thought and thought sadly that if now asked what love is, he would not find what to answer.

While I didn't, I... also knew what love is.