I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.

“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they…”

“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I…”

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour b…”