Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

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

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.