The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy