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

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

I have a plan-to go mad.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.