As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Enough or not...it will have to do

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.