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

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.