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| 002fdf5 | n 'ql m ymkn 'n yuql hw 'n lnsn , wfy kl mr@ yblG fyh hdfan mn 'hdfh, l wnlHZ `lyh shyy'an mn : lDjr wlqlq wlDyq | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cd85ca3 | Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat interesting? To bypass them altogether in a story is quite impossible, because ordinary people are constantly and for the most part the necessary links in the chain of everyday events; in bypassing them we would thus violate plausibility. To .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d0e2921 | Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are fermenting, and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands. Anyway, there's no practicality. Practicality goes well shod. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ca467d9 | V Apokalipsisa angel't se k'lne, che veche niama da ima vreme. - Znam. Tova tam e mnogo viarno; iasno i tochno. Kogato chovek't dostigne shchastieto, niama da ima veche vreme, zashchoto ne e nuzhno. Mnogo viarna mis'l. - K'de shche go dianat? - Nik'de niama da go diavat. Vremeto ne e predmet, a ideia. Shche ugasne v uma. | angel apocalypse mind time um vreme | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c9ee7a0 | Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It is a profound thing. It strengthens people's hearts and instructs them,... Literature is a picture, or rather in a certain sense both a picture and a mirror; it is an expression of emotion, a subtle form of criticism, a didactic lesson and a document... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1804d09 | How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds! | nature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2077bdd | I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer--and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b4c56f5 | I've always wanted all or nothing! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e1c2654 | what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books. And why do we fuss and fume.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8c7b26e | fhnk 'ns yHbwn 'n y`tqdw 'n muDThdwn muhnwn.. | النفس | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 4520088 | You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 634f6bb | nki tblGyn mn ljml 'nW lmr l yjrw' 'n ynZra lyki | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 715a625 | According to my rule, you can find in every woman something - damn it! - something extraordinarily interesting, something you won't find in any other woman. Only you must know how to find it - that's the point! That requires talent! For me ugly women do not exist: the very fact that she's a woman is half the attraction for me- but how could you understand that? Even in old maids you sometimes find something so attractive that you can't help.. | fyodor interesting women | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 84894ec | What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ad2b7a6 | A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cc0be4c | n lkhT' hw lmyz@ lwHyd@ lty ymtz bh lky'n lnsny `l~ sy'r lky'nt lHy@. mn ykhTy' ySl l~ lHqyq@. 'n nsn l'nny 'khTy'. m wSl mry' l~ Hqyq@ wHd@ l b`d 'n 'khT' 'rb` `shr@ mr@ wrbm my'@ w'rb` `shr@ mr@ ! whdh fy dhth lys m y`yb. lk 'n tqwl ar jnwny@, wlkn ltkn hdhh lar ark 'nt. l'n ykhTy' lmr bTryqth lshkhSy@, fdhlk ykd ykwn khyran mn trdyd Hqyq@ lqWnh yh Gyrh. 'nt fy lHl@ l'wl~ nsn, 'm fy lHl@ lthny@ f'nt bbG l 'kthr. lHqyq@ l tTyr, 'm lHy@ fy.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8e448ea | Vinagi taka stava s tezi shilerovski prekrasni dushi; do posledniia moment kichat choveka s paunovi pera, do posledniia moment ochakvat samo khubavo, ne losho i makar da predchuvstvat obratnata strana na medala, za nishcho na sveta niama da si go kazhat napravo; samo kato si pomisliat za tova, nastr'khvat; s dve r'tse se braniat ot istinata, dokato chovek't, kogoto sa idealizirali, sobstvenor'chno ne im izigrae nomer. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b199f4f | Science and reason have, from the beginning of time, played a secondary and subordinate part in the life of nations; so it will be till the end of time. Nations are built up and moved by another force which sways and dominates them, the origin of which is unknown and inexplicable: that force is the force of an insatiable desire to go on to the end, though at the same time it denies that end. It is the force of the persistent assertion of on.. | fyodor-dostoyevsky the-possessed | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 1ec6e27 | 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 an absurdity, otherwise you must necessarily kill yourself. Once you recognize it, you are king, and you will not kill yourself but will live in the chiefest glory. But one, the one who is first, must necessarily kill himself, otherwise wh.. | nihlism revelation | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| cff562c | Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d201ad1 | For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3228eaa | Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4aa4630 | The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that.. | awareness experience living-wakefully value wakefulness wasting-time | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2466045 | n hdh lt`wd `l~ lshrW hw m ynbGy 'n nHzn lh . | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3026fe8 | Sdqny n qlt lk n Hy@ kl mr'@ , mhm ykn klmh , lyst l bHthan 'bdyan `n syd tkhD` lh .. n fyh Zm' l~ lkhDw` n SH lt`byr .. HfZ hdh lklm wl tstthn mnhn wHd@ | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bd58fe1 | Not everything can be told in words, certain things it's better never to tell. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c7c56e4 | Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age--it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realization he ends by arriving at complete solitude. All mankin.. | visionary | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e35a387 | There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 72efe17 | Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown | gambling rousseau | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 4a6811b | Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society. | journalism religion society | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 84924ce | Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| ae98fbb | I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| fa5b70e | Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| f80a855 | Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to anted.. | civilization cuvier discoverer discovery feeble fossils genius geology george-byron george-gordon-byron george-gordon-noel george-gordon-noel-byron georges-cuvier historian immensity lord-byron memory mind montmartre natural poet poetry science space time treatise turmoil urals | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3a9dd52 | the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: "Luke! Inside. Now." He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard's tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and ho.. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| cc61158 | saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: "Luke! Inside. Now." | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 7a9be1b | Maybe never again as long as I live." He turned and walked into the" | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| a9d2ee9 | Mother came over and gave Luke's shoulder a reassuring squeeze before turning back to the stove. They had defied the Government once, with Luke. That had taken all the defiance they had in them. Maybe more. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 882814e | scrambled | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 71f5b01 | Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots? | humor second-chance the-missing-series | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 8b7d850 | It just happened, | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 477007e | You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 745e4cf | Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 841e88c | won't | Margaret Peterson Haddix |