We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness