Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

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

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.