“To first write on politics, and then come forward as a novelist has its inconveniences, as I had to learn at my own expense. It is like appearing in two different characters in the same play: the spectators will always have some difficulty in discarding the impression they may have received from the first while looking at the second.””
“Their is certain pleasure in thinking of afflictions when they have lost their sting and become things of past.””
“But Nature has denied him any literary talent. He felt within him an ardent enthusiastic soul; he was far from being insensible to what was beautiful and poetical. But the channels between his sentiments and their utterance were blocked in him, and things which profoundly stirred his heart, when set down on paper, looked savourless and commonplace.””
“A woman's love is a great, but dangerous blessing.””
“He disliked trouble of any kind, taking life as easy as it was possible for him, and preferring always to smooth over or cautiously circumvent all obstacles instead of breaking through them.””
“You mustn't rave in this way," she said, earnestly. "A woman's love is not a prize; it's a free gift on both sides.””
S. StepniakS. Stepniak, born Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinskii, was a prominent Russian revolutionary and writer of Ukrainian descent. He gained notoriety in 1878 for assassinating General Nikolai Mezent...
“It is when spoken man to man, face to face, that the human word produces its greatest effect.””
“Life is a struggle. The closest ties are no shield against this.””
“He was not born to be a martyr- he knew it only too well and it pained him to hurt even a dumb creature. But frightful, necessity over which he had no control, compelled him to trample down his feelings””