It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.