Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

A hard life improves the vision.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

Who will dare say he has defined art?

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.