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Go along.Much sense we have,the pair of us,but you… . Oh,you are one of my own kind!I wrote you a mad letter,& you agreed to come to tell me that 'you almost love me.' Yes,we are possessed by the same madness!Be always as mad,don't change,& we shall meet as friends—that I predict,that I swear!

And then I shall certainly love you, for I feel that even now!

Once,not long before I went abroad,almost on the eve of my breaking off all relations with her,in fact,I went into her room and found her alone,at a little table,without any work in her hands,but deep in thought,resting her elbow on the table.It had hardly ever happened to her before to sit without work.At that time I had quite given up showing her affection.I succeeded in stealing in very quietly, on tiptoe, and..

The memory of our meetings is dear to me;the boy in you is very dear to me,& perhaps,too, that very sincerity …you know,I'm a very serious person,I’m one of the most serious & gloomy characters among modern women,let me tell you … ha—ha—ha! We'll have another talk some time,but now I'm not quite myself,I am upset &… I believe I'm a little hysterical.But,at last,at last,HE will let me,too, live in peace

once you pocket the money you'll get on and get on, and in ten years' time you will be such a millionaire that all Russia will resound with your fame, so you won't need a name then. Why, you can buy a title in Austria. And when you get married, keep her well in hand. They want a firm hand. If a woman's in love, she likes to feel a man's got a tight grip on her. Women like will in a man.

To be sure I knew that was it,peasant superstitions: 'If I take to my bed,' they say, 'ten to one I shan't get up,' that's what the peasants very often fear,& they would rather keep on their legs when they're ill than go to a hospital. As for you,Makar Ivanovitch, you're simply home-sick for freedom,& the open road— that's all that's the matter with you,you've got out of the habit of staying long in one place...

The vast majority of people don't know how to laugh at all. It is not a matter of knowing how,though: it's a gift and it cannot be cultivated.One can only cultivate it, perhaps,by training oneself to be different, by developing and improving and by struggling against the evil instincts of one's character:then a man's laugh might very likely change for the better. A man will sometimes give himself away completely...

We’re both stricken by the same Russian curse;you don't know what to do,& I don't know what to do.If a Russian deviates ever so little from the rut of routine laid down for him by tradition,at once he is at a loss what to do.While he's in the rut everything's clear;income,rank,position in society,a carriage,visits, a wife—but ever so little off it—& what am I?A leaf fluttering before the wind

That woman is what you were talking of this morning, 'living life,'?You said that living life is something so direct & simple,something that looks you so straight in the face,that its very directness & clearness make us unable to believe that it can be the very thing we're seeking so laboriously all our live.With ideas like that,you met the ideal woman & in perfection, in the ideal,you recognized 'all the vices'!

I can't endure your smile any longer! Why did I even in Moscow picture you as menacing,magnificent, using venomous drawing-room phrases? When I was coming here I dreamed of you all night in the train. The expression of your face is childish mischief and boundless good-nature—there! I have been marvelling at it all the time I've been coming to see you. Oh,you know how to look haughty and to crush one with a glance

Can it all be so materialistic?Can the modern world come to an end simply through finance

Oh,of course,I've only chosen one aspect of the picture,but that aspect is bound up with the whole by indissoluble bonds,so to speak

What's to be done

Oh dear,don't be in a hurry;it's not all coming so soon.In any case,to do nothing is always best,one's conscience is at rest anyway,knowing that one's had no share in anything