A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.