Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life...But on the whole you will bless life all the same.

“She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes…”

“And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous…”

“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words..”

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”