Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!