You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.