If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
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.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.