The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

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.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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.

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

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.