Author of quotes: Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva

Why lie and pretend? Of course I want to, and I hope, perhaps, whether, if any other way to stay on this earth. If you do not die young, I hope to remain as a great artist; but if I die young, I want to write a diary, and let it: can't be that it was uninteresting.

Oh, gusts barren, fruitless and miserable intrigues, fruitless debates with family, a fruitless evening spent in conversations about what I would like, and not made a single step to reach the goal! Futile and pathetic effort!

The real selfish people should only do good:
doing evil, he is too unhappy.

Words of love are all circuses in the world, except perhaps those where you're going to show themselves.

Humiliate himself in words only, when, in fact, quite confident in his height.

Not going to wait for anything from people, and from them we get only disappointment and bitterness.

Pin pricks drive you crazy, but the strong blow of a club you can transfer. It's true.

The word "genius" has the same property as the word "love." The first time hardly dare to write it, and just wrote, and go to use it every day about every little thing.

If I was born a man, you would have conquered Europe. Born a woman, I exhausted the energy to argue with fate and eccentric antics.