True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

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

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.