I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.