For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

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

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.