In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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!

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it