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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b61079f | We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone. | history | Marilyn Johnson | |
| e89ce94 | Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 7ab3471 | Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know! | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1266f39 | lsw'l m zl yt'kl qlbk , wlkn lshhyd yHbW 'Hynan 'n yslWy nfsh bly's , w'nt, fy y'sk, tlhy nfsk bmqlt fy mjl@ , wbmnqsh@ fy jm`@ , m` 'nk l tthq bm tjdl bh bqlb mtwjW` thz' bh mn ldkhl .. lm tjb `n dhlk lsw'l, lm tjb `n dhlk lsw'l whw Hznk lkbyr l'nh ytdhmWr bSkhb Tlban jb@ | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dd8105c | The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died and thought he'd go straight into darkness and death, but no--there was the future life before him. He was amazed and indignant. 'This,' he said, 'goes against my convictions.' So for that he was sentenced...I mean, you see, I beg your pardon,.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e29e14c | There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that the Lord will not forgive one who truly repents of it. A man even cannot commit so great a sin as would exhaust God's boundless love. How could there be a sin that exceeds God's love? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f22484d | On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 12e5025 | Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detest.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 126530b | rub m`rf@ Sdq@ tujnb kthyran mn lmt`b. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ffaee28 | ytHdth lns 'Hynan `n jry'm bhymy@, lkn dhlk Zlm whn@ llHywnt, flHywn l ymkn 'n yqsw mthl lnsn, flnmr ybky wyqDm wlys 'kthr mn dhlk, fhw l yfkr btsmyr lns mn adhnhm Ht~ wlw kn qdran `l~ dhlk. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a089237 | lshrf yshl khd`hm, Ht~ dh ktshfw 'nhm khud`w, `tSmw bnw` mn lHtqr lmtkbr, bdlan mn 'n ylj'w l~ lqnwn, dh kn dhlk f~ lmkn. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| be32af9 | 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: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know t.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1a76047 | n lmr lyjd ldh@ fy 'dn~ drj@ mn drjt lnkhHTT w lmdhl@ | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7b11913 | Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0d4500a | fy Ht lmrD ttmyz Hm bbrwz qwy wshd@ khrq@, wttmyz kdhlk btshbh kbyr m` lwq`, qd ykwn mjmw` llwH@ `jyb shdh, wlkn lTr wmjml tslsl ltSwr ykwnn fy lwqt nfsh `l~ drj@ `ly@ mn lm`qwly@, wyshtmn `l~ tfSyl mrhf@ jd, tfSyl Gyr mtwq`@, tblG mn Hsn lmshm@ fy kml lmjmw` 'n lHlm ystTy` 'n ybtkrh fy Hl@ lyqZ@ wlw kn fnn kbyr mthl bwshkyn 'w twrjnyf. whdhh Hm, '`ny Hm lmrDy@, tkhlf dy'm dhkr~ bqy@, wtHdth 'thr qwy fy ljsm lmD`D` lmhtz lmkhtl. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a2e3f5c | Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else.... I tell you what, I can't help coming here to-morrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams. I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year. I shall certainly come here to-morrow, just here to this place, just at the same ho.. | dreams happiness memories | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 905c358 | But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who makes use of it. Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8306ae1 | I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e410560 | ytfq llmr 'Hynan 'n ylq~ 'nsan l y`rfhm lbt@ fdh hw yhtm bhm mndh 'wl nZr@ qbl 'n ybdlhm klm@ wHd@. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4fa6139 | Is it not I myself who am to blame, instead of them? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 04b2eff | mn Gyr bldh fqd Gyr kl shy' f~ Hyth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aa0d0ea | You've finally understood! Kirillov cried out rapturously. So it can be understood, if even someone like you understands! You understand now that the whole salvation for everyone is to prove this thought to them all. Who will prove it? I! I don't understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God and not kill himself at once. To recognize that there is no God, and not to recognize at the same time that you have become God, is .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5588ca0 | The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and the chosen, predestined to begin a new race of men and a new life, to renew and purify the earth; but these people were not seen anywhere by anybody, and nobody heard their voices or their words. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 494a448 | I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complet.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ce1ca9a | But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (there is no saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fff5ee1 | Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to do with any reasoning, or any crimes and misdemeanors or atheism; is is something entirely different and it will always be so; it is something our atheists will always overlook, and they will never talk about THAT. But the important thing is that you will notice it most clearly in a Russian heart, and that's the.. | the-idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5fc2123 | Los verdaderos grandes hombres deben de experimentar, a mi entender, una gran tristeza en este mundo | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 89b507c | You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice." | prince-myshkin the-idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 12ed234 | n fy lHy@ s`tun, k'nh ttjm` fyh alm snyn Twyl@ brmth | الحياة | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b1c1bb9 | w'zddt wT'@ wHdty wSmty Ht~ 'SbHtu l 'jrw' `l~ 'n 'khrj mnh... | الوحدة | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e262c91 | Already even then I had my underground world in my soul. I was fearfully afraid of being seen, of being met, of being recognized. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7b434b8 | A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 34efaef | I wanted to find out then and quickly whether I was a louse like everybody else or a man. Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling creature or whether I have the right...F | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 409e70a | Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature. - Yes; it's a funny habit. - No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, however funny it may seem to man. If dogs could reason and criticize us they'd be sure to find just as much that would be funny to them, if not far more, in the social relations of men, their masters -far more, I think. I am more convinced that ther.. | nature society | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| d6c3fc1 | I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me -- and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter -- not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them. Sad becau.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 32116ce | to a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 796255a | Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2b9639f | Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and - I can't, and now there are these little details, these little details... | falling-in-love | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f3656f8 | Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should have respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I should at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least have been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could have believed myself. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e679bd4 | Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are .. | forgiveness mercy | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 75fe8cb | My friend, the truth is always implausible. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3bc9312 | Life is, and death is not at all | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6efebc6 | rb 'dyb yslkh mn `mrh thlthyn `m fy lktb@, thm hw yjhl akhr l'mr lmdh ktb Twl hdhh lsnyn. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fea1992 | I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |