“I wanted to excel in your eyes, show my strength of will, wait before writing you, first finish a document, but the room is empty, no one is minding me – it’s as if someone said: leave him alone, can’t you see how engrossed he is in his own affairs, it’s as if he had a fist in his mouth. So I only wrote half a page and am once again with you, lying on this letter like I lay next to you back then in the forest.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena

You will do the greatest service to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens. Fragment

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Among a number of intelligent suggestions there was finally this one too, strange as it may seem, that Chichikov might be Napoleon in disguise... Dead Souls