Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.