She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

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".

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.