a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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 he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.