In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.