If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.