I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

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

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.