If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.