Quotes from Alexei Tolstoi

But a man can fall in love only with someone he presumes to be accessible; it is impossible, for example, to fall in love with a statue, or a cloud. His feeling for Dasha was something out of the common, something strange and half-incomprehensible, because there was so little reason for it-merely a few minutes' talk and a chair in a corner of his room.

I'm nearly thirty, and up to now I've lived as the grass grows. What terrible emptiness! Nothing but selfishness and indifference to others. I must pull myself up before it is too late. Ivan Ilich Telegin.