At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Our body is a machine for living.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.