Depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow – or like a faithful wife.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Thus people – so it seems to me – become good friends from sheer ennui.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin

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