We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating. - Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

After this conversation I lay awake all night and thought of shooting myself. In the morning I wrote five letters and tore them all up.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.