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

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

God is the same everywhere.