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And what’s more precious than love? Love is higher than being, love is the crown of being; how is it possible that being should not be subordinate to love?

No, the highway was much better; he’d just set off and go along without thinking about anything for as long as he could. The highway very, very long, with no end in sight � just like human life, human dreams.

The mystery of the appearance of a new being; it’s a great and inexplicable mystery', Shahtov mumbled incoherently, stupefied and enraptured. ‘There were two people, and all of a sudden there’s a third being, a new spirit, whole and complete, such that no human hands could ever create; new thought and new love; it’s frightening, actually…There’s nothing greater on earth!�

Don’t you know mankind can survive without your Englishman, without Germany, and certainly without Russians, without science, without bread - but not without beauty, for then there'd be nothing left to do on earth! The whole secret, the whole of history lies in that! Science itself won't stand up for one minute without beauty � it will turn into a vulgar charade. You’ll not even be able to invent so much as a nail!

Why are you staring at me? I need you, you are necessary to me. Without you, I am nothing. Without you, I am a fly, an idea in a glass bottle, Columbus without America.

Yulia Mikhailovna possessed some two hundred serfs; what’s more, she had powerful friends. On the other hand, von Lembke was handsome, and she was already over forty . Remarkable as it is, he gradually fell genuinely in love with her as he became more and more used to the idea of being her betrothed. On his wedding day he sent her some verses. She liked every bit of it ,even the verses : being forty is no joke.

Your umbrella... do I deserve it, sir?� The captain asked in an ingratiating way.
“Everyone deserves an umbrella.�
“In one little phrase you've defined the minimum of human rights...

Apparently it's true that the second half of a man's life consists entirely of habits acquired during the first half.

Don't you see that if you place the guillotine in the foreground and are so enthusiastic about it, it's merely because it's so easy to chop off people's heads , while it's so much more difficult to have an idea ! Don't you understand, in addition to happiness mankind needs unhappiness just as much?

And surely such unmistakable genuine grief, even in a phenomenally frivolous man, is capable of making him solid and resolute, if only for a very short time. What's more, real, genuine grief can sometimes make even fools smarter, though, of course only for a little while; it's characteristic of this kind of grief.