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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0098369 | How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake | departure love missing-someone unbearable yearning | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8adbc57 | At first--long before indeed--he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected, and why almost all criminals leave such obvious traces? He had come gradually to many different and curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossibility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself. Almost every criminal is subject to a failur.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7dd6b35 | Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything - that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4582724 | The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations--and absolutely nothing more. And through the development of this many-sidedness man may come to finding enjoyment in bloodshed. In fact, this has already happened to him. Have you noticed that it is the most civilised gentlemen who have been the subtlest slaughterers, to whom the Attilas and Stenka Razins could not hold a candle, and if they are not.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 456c0af | one can't hold one's tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 031ce19 | rqb slwkk fy kl s`@ wfy kl dqyq@ mn lywm Ht~ tsh` lThr@ mnk | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2dec798 | mankind can still continue to live without the Englishman, can continue without Germany, can continue all too well without the Russian, can continue without science, can continue without bread -- it is only without beauty that we cannot continue, for there will be nothing at all to do in the world! That's where the whole secret lies, that's where the whole of history lies! Science itself would not last a minute without beauty -- | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| be60771 | In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was reading. Reading, of course, was a great help--exciting me, giving me pleasure and pain. But at times it bored me fearfully. One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pett.. | vice | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| d293474 | I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b4c0c89 | Catch several hares and you won't catch one. | pyotr-petrovitch russian-proverb | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 485da14 | If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets -secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one's closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one's own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That's why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d8a30e | I don't understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 206c16c | Reality alone justifies everything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2369fff | Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. | dostoyevsky feelings heart helpless humiliation subdued | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c103395 | Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. | classics dostoevsky russian-literature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 7feee9c | whkdh, `ndm nkwn t`s, fnn nHs bmHn@ lakhryn bSwr@ 'fDl. n lHss l ytbdd, bl nh yshtd..." " | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6a7af56 | I create entire romances in my dreams. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9974737 | Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 342f793 | Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some green,decayed on the edges. Blown about by the wind. When I was 10 years old, I'd close my eyes on purpose, in winter, and imagine a leaf - green, bright, with veins, and the sun shining. I'd open my eyes and not believe it, because it was so good, then I'd close them again. " "What's that, an allegory?" "N-no... Why? Not an allegory, simply a.. | russian-literature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e4149b1 | The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9d51bda | HENRY: Leave me out of it. They don't count. Maybe Brodie got a raw deal, maybe he didn't. I don't know. It doesn't count. He's a lout with language. I can't help somebody who thinks, or thinks he thinks, that editing a newspaper is censorship, or that throwing bricks is a demonstration while building tower blocks is social violence, or that unpalatable statement is provocation while disrupting the speaker is the exercise of free speech...W.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 7a2710f | I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4a992d0 | Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered .. | the-tempest tom-stoppard | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2a1b292 | There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said - no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time. | reincarnation | Tom Stoppard | |
| 040b1ea | No espero nada. Esto no es horrible. Despues de resolverlo, he ganado tranquilidad. Pero esa mujer me ha dado una esperanza. Debo temer las esperanzas. Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridicula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 819bdc4 | An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field. "How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all Scottish sheep are black!" To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!" The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, con.. | Simon Singh | ||
| cc2a6b7 | Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 89b168f | It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him." Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?" -- | holly-short mulch-diggums | Eoin Colfer | |
| f7005aa | To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ad5c323 | The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f6955d1 | The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2237c53 | She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a509134 | Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?" | Victor Hugo | ||
| ba463f9 | Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 483dff7 | I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7ff554f | Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness | ignorance responsibillity sin | Victor Hugo | |
| a81c91b | One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.) | power | Victor Hugo | |
| 6578f42 | Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. | Victor Hugo | ||
| feeb322 | There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8fa45e0 | Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c264dec | Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a finger -- that would suffice for my eternity! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1b23f1d | What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5204ea4 | The cruel of heart have their own black happiness. | victor hugo | ||
| 7c6a5bb | I encountered in the street a penniless young man who was in love. His hat was old and his jacket worn, with holes at the elbows; water soaked through his shoes, but starlight flooded through his soul. | Victor Hugo |