I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.