Character: Arkady Dolgoruky. Page 1

Find out the truth: continuity and perseverance in gaining and, most importantly, in accumulation, are stronger than instantaneous benefits, even if only one hundred and one hundred percent!

Perseverance in accumulation, even penny sums, subsequently gives enormous results. The simplest form of profit, but only continuous, is mathematically guaranteed success.

I understand too clearly that by becoming a Rothschild, or even only by wishing to become one, I already at the same time leave society.

All religions and all morals in the world come down to one thing:

My idea is to become a Rothschild. Become as rich as Rothschild; not just rich, but exactly like Rothschild.

It's almost impossible to say otherwise.

How many gloomy faces of the common people, hastily returning to their corners from work and crafts! Everyone has his own gloomy concern on his face and not a single, perhaps, common, all-unifying thought in this crowd. All apart.

Why bother with people who don't want you?

My mother was one such person among the unprotected, whom you not only love - on the contrary, not at all - but somehow suddenly for some reason you regret it, for meekness, or what, however, for what? this is always unknown to anyone, but you will regret it for a long time; you will regret it and get attached ... Sometimes it happens that you won’t get rid of it.

It would be necessary to reduce all women at once to the level of mere domestic animals and keep it to yourself in this form only: perhaps very many people want this.

A lost and embarrassed newcomer on the first day of entering a school (whatever) is a common victim: he is ordered, he is teased, he is treated like a lackey.

To write intelligently, one desire is not enough.

I am not a writer, I don’t want to be a writer, and I would consider it indecency and meanness to drag the inside of my soul and a beautiful description of feelings into their literary market.

The writer has been writing for thirty years and at the end does not know at all why he has been writing for so many years.