Writers Are As Jealous As

There Are In Life Conjunctions Of Circumstances When The Reproach That We Are Not Voltaires Is Least Of All Appropriate.

When A Man Fails To Understand Something He Is Conscious Of A Discord, And Seeks For The Cause Of It Not In Himself, As He Should, But Outside Himself - Hence The War With What He Does Not Understand.

A Writer Should Not So Much Write As Embroider On Paper; The Work Should Be Painstaking, Laborious.

In Russia There Is No Philosophy, But Philosophize Everything, Even The Small Fry.

Happiness Does Not Await Us All. One Needn't Be A Prophet To Say That There Will Be More Grief And Pain Than Serenity And Money. That Is Why We Must Hang On To One Another.