Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

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!

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.