Some of favorite lines from my favorite novel:
1.
There is nothing you cannot find in St. Petersburg, except for a mother and a father.
2.
But if one looks at men in all ways, are there any good ones left?
3.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
4.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
5.
I divined then, Sonia, that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one only has to dare!
6.
You, run away? No you won't run away, because then you would come back to yourself.
7.
Do you know to what point of insanity a woman sometimes love?
8.
There's always a little corner which remains a secret to the world and is only known to those two.
9.
Everyone must think of themselves, and he lives most happily who knows best how to deceive himself.
10.
He would have given anything in the world to be alone, but he knew himself hat he would not have remained alone for a moment.
11.
What literary man does not begin by some originality of conduct.