“You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.”

“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it was ‘an honour to have been expressed by so great a Master.”

“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.”

“Darkness descends to eclipse the LightDeath will take the lives of many, sparing no one. In deaths of the Doomed, Light shimmers: The Light that will set the Beholder free.”

“There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.”

“The queen gazes into the garden. There, near the trees, is a fountain; it is white in the darkness and tall, tall as a ghost. The queen hears, through the talk and the music, the soft splashing of its waters. She looks and thinks. You, Sirs, you are all noble, clever, rich, you throng round me, every one of my words is precious to you, you are all ready to die at my feet, you are my slaves.. But there, by the fountain, by the plashing water, he whose slave I am awaits me. He wears neither gorgeous raiment nor precious stones, no one knows him, but he await me, sure that I come – and I shall come –and there is no power in the world that can stop me when I want to go to him, to be with him, to lose myself with him there in the darkness of the garden, with the rustling of the trees and the murmur of the fountain …' Zinaida was silent.”

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”