And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!