I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.