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

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.