Merciful Heavens! But what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and that twice two makes four?

All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most… .

Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.

حتى حين يحبون, فكأنهم يكرهون

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.

Она смеялась, но она и негодовала.- Спит! Вы спали! - вскричала она с презрительным удивлением.- Это вы! - пробормотал князь, еще не совсем опомнившись и с удивлениемузнавая ее: - ах, да! Это свидание... я здесь спал.- Видела.- Меня никто не будил кроме вас? Никого здесь кроме вас не было? Ядумал, здесь была... другая женщина.- Здесь была другая женщина?!Наконец он совсем очнулся.

Лучше быть несчастным, но знать, чем счастливым, но и жить... в дураках.

A vida só me é dada uma vez, e ela nunca mais voltará—eu não quero esperar a 'felicidade geral'. Eu mesmo quero viver; do contrário o melhor seria não existir.