Children: a torment and nothing more.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.