Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected

LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.