The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!