How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

We are citizens of eternity.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.