It seems it had been fated from the beginning of the world that we should be together, and we see each other now for the first time, and I know you, I know for certain every movement of your soul...Pavel Alexyéitch
You’re bored, you want to live—and there’s a great wide space before you.Author
And here you kick yourself in the chest, you strive towards something and yet you go round and round in a circle.Pavel Alexyéitch
It is true that it is easy to live when one can milk one’s cows and knead one’s bread with one’s own hands.Author
It is the personal work, the personal effort which makes life pleasant to live, and people to be loved.Lydia Volchaninov
What a happiness it is to love and be loved, and how awful to feel that one is slipping further and further away from happiness.Pavel Alexyéitch
He was a noble, a man of principle, and did not want to deceive me.Genya
His feeling, his holy feeling, was more precious to him than happiness.Genya
Art does not make life, and the contemplative life is not worth living. What is important is not the lantern, but the light.Lydia Volchaninov
I am thinking now of my enemies. Well, whose fault is it that I have lost heart and they have not? Why, surely, the fault is theirs.Author
I shall be thinking and thinking all the night through. I shall decide nothing, but I shall go on thinking....Pavel Alexyéitch