Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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!

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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