in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
I divide all literary works into two categories: those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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