“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”

“A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to improve life must direct all their efforts towards changing both their own and other people’s consciousness.”

“Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?”

“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed."Alexis Alexandrovich”

“As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.”

“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”