the number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home.

From lying, what is made in the soul is consolation, which causes a person to be convinced of his share in life. Lying is looking for an excuse to break the worker's arm. Lying blames a man for his...

I did not speak," continued Pavel, "about that good and gracious God in whom you believe, but about the God with whom the priests threaten us as with a stick, about the God in whose name they want to...

Mother remember that God created Adam like herself. So God is similar to man. But we now have no resemblance to God, but we look like wild animals! In the church, he shows us a scarecrow .... Yes, the...

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master-I lost my life in the textile mill of Nefidov-my master presented one prima donna with a golden wash...

What a row. A handful of idiots, hitting, strangling and crushing to protect their fateful authority over the people. The brutality increases, and cruelty becomes the law of existence, and I hope....

All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.

we people at the bottom feel everything; but it is hard for us to speak out our hearts. our thoughts float about in us. we are ashamed because, although we understand, we are not able to express them;...

Every person is a saint, as long as Satan is asleep

But silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say--to them silence is simple and easy. . . .

What does that mean? He died .. and what died? Did my appreciation died for Agor? Did my feeling died towards him? Towards the companion? Did the memory of his ideas died? Did that work itself die?...

And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons... .

The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die.

One to become, against his will, is harmful ... in this fierce life

What drives them to persecute people to death is to keep their silver, gold and despicable financial papers, and all that miserable goods with which they can keep power over people - they do not...

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.

Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being...

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with...