she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.