She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

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.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.