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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1cdc92 | they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 85d9ecb | wny l'`tqd bn 'fDl t`ryf ymknn 'n nu`rf bh lnsn hw 'nh : ky'nun `q bsqyn !! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2d9d8ac | Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better. They respect one another more, and much is built on respect. And if once there has been love, if they have been married for love, why should love pass away? Surely one can keep it! It is rare that one cannot keep it. And if the husband is kind and straightforward, why should not love last? The first phase of married love wi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1283996 | But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bff0bb4 | Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. | karma parenthood wrath | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c8b0290 | I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it. | emotional innate-savagery | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| a0282e3 | In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice? | divine-truth freedom-of-choice | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 107e2ca | In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your personality, and taking into yourself part of another; you are in mutual communion with one another, a little more attention and you will be rewarded with the knowledge of the most unexpected discoveries. You will come at last to look upon your work as a science; it will lay hold of all your life, and may fill up you.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0d85844 | The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and .. | belittle ego fyodor-dostoyevsky judgemental notes-from-underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8f7b7d8 | It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the first place, and secondly, Roman Catholicism is even worse than atheism - that's my opinion. Yes, that's my opinion! Atheism merely preaches a negation, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ, a Christ calumniated and defamed by it, the opposite of Christ! It preaches Antichrist - I swe.. | the-idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b26e2e4 | n lnsn y`td kl shy, y lh mn Hqyr ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a025970 | All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a tempest in your blood. Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest - worse than a tempest! Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets before us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not an educated.. | evil god | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 38b31fe | You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded. I have referred to this already. I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you:" -- | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5ed2453 | And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That's interesting . . . poor idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dee947e | Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there's no escaping it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7d5ddf6 | What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. Fore every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fulness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fulness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realisation he ends .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 673b326 | I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them. Yet from habit one's heart prizes them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b5c8c0f | What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugene de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in th.. | psychology youth | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 8900cd5 | No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has cea.. | finance love money sense sincerity | Honoré de Balzac | |
| f5004e1 | If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| bfaefaf | Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? | men protectiveness | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 92175df | There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like children, too near the ground to do themselves harm. But when a great man breaks, he has soared up to the heavens, espied some inaccessible paradise, and then fallen from a great height. The forces that make him seek peace from the barrel of a gun cannot be placated. How many young talents confined to an attic room withe.. | the-wild-ass-s-skin | Honoré de Balzac | |
| d036cbb | When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds. | humor south | Jen Lancaster | |
| 695a3f6 | When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations? | Jen Lancaster | ||
| b20ae4f | Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 57e479f | The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| ba91905 | The ancient rishis discovered these laws of sound alliance between nature and man. Because nature is an objectification of Aum, the Primal Sound or Vibratory Word, man can obtain control over all natural manifestations through the use of certain mantras or chants. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 4c896db | Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| b66abfc | For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin... | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| aaa31d3 | For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 638e573 | Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 9629173 | So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 0c71a72 | When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| fa6604f | However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone loved them or named them. | Penny Reid | ||
| 908c1a8 | It wasn't my finest moment, but I rolled my eyes and actually huffed. "Fine, don't answer. I don't even know why I asked." "No, I am not having sex with anyone." "Oh." I shrugged nonchalantly, but for some reason his response filled me with glee. It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing." | Penny Reid | ||
| ad8973c | What do you call each other? What are your pet names? Dearest? Turtledove? Thor? Herr Handsome of my heart? Lizard of my labia? Captain of my clitoris? | Penny Reid | ||
| f9796f3 | You took one commercial flight, Steven. One." "Shhh!" he pressed his finger to his lips and loud whispered, "He'll hear you." I glanced to my right and left. "Who will hear me?" "Manuel, the plane." -- | Penny Reid | ||
| bd21c84 | I think men will always be arrested on some level by the idea of owning their spouse, of completely possessing the woman they love, of having her unquestioning trust and obedience and admiration. But most importantly, of actually being a man that deserves it all. And I think women--though they are loathe to admit it--fundamentally want to be possessed. | Penny Reid | ||
| 1b62504 | He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners. | Penny Reid | ||
| 6ff00d7 | This is the tattoo of life decisions." "Tattoo of life decisions?" "Yes. Tattoo. Marriage is the forever and permanent branding of one person to another. Sure, you can get it removed - but it's expensive, it's a process, and you're never the same after. You're scarred. It's always a part of you, visible or not. You get a tattoo with the intention of a life-long commitment. You have to defend its existence and take ownership of it in front.. | Penny Reid | ||
| e7fc777 | Dance with me." Blinking, first at his offered palm and then at his features, I asked, "Why?" Not immediately replying, he reached for me, pulled me to my feet, and slid an arm around my waist. I allowed him to hold my body against his, fit our hands together, and sway to the lovely music. Begrudgingly, I admitted to myself he had great rhythm. Someone had taught him to dance. Jehtro dipped his mouth to my ear, his beard tickling my neck as.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 194a42a | What is your least favorite part of the male anatomy?" "Uh...what?" "Come on." I nudged her shoulder. "You have to have a least favorite part." Marie stared at me for a beat then blinked rapidly. "Really? I just pour out my heart to you and...." "Balls," Ashley announced unceremoniously from her place on the floor. Elizabeth snickered. "Oh, my lord." Marie covered her face with her hands and shook her head. I ignored her and leaned closer t.. | Penny Reid | ||
| b823f94 | Nothing was worse than a handsome guy who became an ignorant toad when he spoke. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0133d6d | If you are a woman, you may need to forgive those whom you have loved or those who refused to love you; those who have hurt you, shamed you, and abandoned you; or those who left you scarred or wounded. | Iyanla Vanzant |