And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.