1 Some may say that characters of his type have become extinct, that Nozdrevs no longer exist.
2 Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others.
3 By this time Chichikov felt that he had seen enough; wherefore he returned to the Colonel, and informed him that the Office for the Reception of Reports and Returns had ceased to exist.
4 Yes, for every man there exist certain things which, instantly that they are said, seem to touch him more closely, more intimately, than anything has done before.
5 Why, if you don't help us in our appeal to you, then we simply don't know how we are to exist.
6 If you don't crown my steadfast love, then I am not fit to exist in this world.
7 And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.
8 The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.
9 But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace.
10 Headquarters are so full of Germans that a Russian cannot exist and there is no sense in anything.
11 Everything not connected with the execution of the prince's orders did not interest and did not even exist for Alpatych.
12 But to make an attack the wish to do so is not sufficient, there must also be a possibility of doing it, and that possibility did not exist.
13 Moscow is taken and after that, with no further battles, it is not Russia that ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, and then Napoleonic France itself.
14 After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist.
15 It could not exist because it was senseless and unattainable.