I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

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

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

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.