Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.