Character: on behalf of the author. Page 507
Ordinary people waited till that life itself had disclosed to them its secrets, but few chosen ones the secrets of life revealed before the veil was drawn. Sometimes this is facilitated by the arts (and primarily literature), acting directly on the mind and senses. But it happens that the role of art assumes in this case a man complex of the soul, which itself is a work of art - because Life, like poetry, or sculpture, or painting, also creating their masterpieces.
...punctuality is the thief of time.
In public life he was a loyal supporter of his leader, and in private - a supporter of good food that is well-known followed the wise rule: "to Act with the liberals and eat with the conservatives."
...how is it exciting to test the strength of their influence on the other person! Nothing can compare to it. To pour his soul into another, let her stay in it; to hear the echoes of his own thoughts, reinforced by the music of his youth and passion; to convey to another your temperament, as a subtle fluid or a peculiar flavor, is a real delight, the greatest joy, perhaps, what is given to man by our limited and vulgar age his glubokovodnye pleasures and probabilitie aspirations.
...everyone praises those virtues in which he himself there is no need to exercise: the rich preach thrift, and loafers eloquently spread about the great value of labor.
Those who find beautiful ugly spoiled, and, moreover, the corruption does not make them attractive. It is a great sin.
The story of the human soul, at least the smallest of the soul, almost curious and not useful history of an entire people, especially when it is a consequence of the observations of a Mature mind on himself and when it was written without the vain desire to initiate participation, or surprise.
Our audience so young and ingenuous, that does not understand fable, if in the end finds it in sermons. She did not guess jokes are not sense of irony; it is simply badly brought up. She does not know that in a decent society and a decent book is a clear abuse can not take place; that modern education has invented a weapon sharper, almost invisible and yet deadly, which, under the clothing of flattery, causing an irresistible and a sure shot.
