Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.