"Every today is at the same time both a cradle and a shroud: a shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow. Today, yes…"

"Yesterday, there was a tsar, and there were slaves; today there is no tsar, but the slaves remain; tomorrow there wil…"

"I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if…"

"It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, …"

"At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night…"

"Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith."

"Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no th…"

"She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me- and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew:…"

"Fog.. So very.." "Do you like fog" She used the ancient, long-forgotten "thou" — the "thou" of the master to the slav…"

"True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, he…"