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

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.