There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?