..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Be the sun and all will see you.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

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