So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.