Quotes from M. Ageyev

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and begin to realise, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

J'aurais pu lutter contre la cocaïne et lui résister dans un seul cas: celui où la sensation de bonheur aurait été déterminée chez moi moins par la réalisation de l'événement extérieur que par le travail, la peine, les efforts qu'il aurait fallu fournir pour y arriver. Mais je n'avais pas cela dans ma vie.

Durant les longues nuits et les longues journées passées sous l'effet de la cocaïne dans la chambre de Yag, il me vint à l'esprit que ce qui importe à l'homme ce ne sont pas les événements survenus dans sa vie, mais seulement les répercussions de ces événements dans sa conscience.... ...L'homme vit donc non des événements du monde qui l'entoure mais des reflets de ces événements dans sa conscience.

chez le pire des minables il existe de ces sentiments, sentiments de fierté intransigeante, qui exigent une réciprocité absolue, et qui préfèrent la douleur d'une solitude amère aux joies d'un succès obtenu par l'humiliante intercession de la raison.

try to understand that our souls work like swings: the stronger the push up towards the nobility of the soul, the stronger the swoop down towards the fury of the beast.