It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.