One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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 is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

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