"If I hit him, he'll hit me too," Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwa...rdly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher. "Good shot," said Berg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anton Petrovich turned into the passage, followed the arrow to men, mankind, human beings, marched past the toilet, past the kitch...en, gave a start when a cat darted under his feet, quickened his step, reached the end of the passage, pushed open a door, and a shower of sunlight splashed his face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do wish that as long as they are translating the thing, they would go right on ahead, while they're at it, and translate Fedor V...asilyevich Protosov and Georgei Dmitrievich Abreskov and Ivan Petrovich Alexandrov into Joe and Harry and Fred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past... childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individua...l who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass ...by. They don't have far to go, either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of som...eone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »