There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.