I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.