To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.