“It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you”

“Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?"Vronksy”

“The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.”

“Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.”

“I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.”

“There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.”