It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.