For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods
And if the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price
The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have come to pass in it without them
beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Can a Russian peasant be said to feel, in comparison with an educated man
And perhaps I don’t even believe in God
Pine-trees are not like people, Alexey Fyodorovitch, they don’t change quickly
there are no people on earth stronger than the rich
I’ll wheel you about myself
