It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Hell is the inability to love.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.