Teach French and unteach sincerity.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.