Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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!

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!