There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!