Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own$$$ whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now$$$ with the new feeling that had ripened in him$$$ he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience$$$ too.A life laid down cannot be reclaimed$$$ nor can a ruined conscience.

Should a man$$$ to preserve his life$$$ pay everything that gives life colour$$$ scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of digestion$$$ respiration$$$ muscular and brain activity - and nothing more? Become a walking blueprint? Is this not an exorbitant price? Is it not mockery?

He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread--that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.

The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished$$$ undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with - as far as possible. Like a silver moon in a calm$$$ still pond.

That which is called humanism$$$ but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism$$$ cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else$$$ sublime$$$ quite indestructible$$$ some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit. Don't you feel that?