I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.