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| 3c16336 | The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or surmises, without doubts and without questioning. It was an instant of full, direct, purely instinctive joy. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a0f0db7 | But even to him I used to go only when such a spell came, and my dreams had reached such happiness that I needed, instantly and infallibly, to embrace people and the whole of mankind - for which I had to have available at least one really existing person. Anton Antonych, however, could be visited only on Tuesdays (his day), and consequently my need to embrace the whole of mankind always had to be adjusted to a Tuesday. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6388827 | It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as before, and they have already proclaimed that there is no crime, that there is no sin. And that's consistent, for if you have no God what is the meaning of crime? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 27979f0 | U svakom slucaju, ako covjek od civilizacije nije postao krvozedniji, postao je sigurno ruznije, ogavnije krvozedan nego prije. Prije je u krvoprolicu gledao pravednost i mirne je savjesti tamanio koga je vec trebalo; a sada, ako krvoprolice i smatramo gadoscu, ipak se bavimo tom gadoscu, pa i vise nego prije. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a8deeb3 | He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now. It struck him as strange and grotesque, that he should have stopped at the same spot as before, as though he actually imagined he could think the same thoughts, be interested in the same theories and pictures that had interested him ... so short a time ago. He felt it almost amusing, and yet it wrung his heart. D.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f391df0 | A veces nos encontramos con individuos completamente desconocidos que sin saber por que nos interesan en seguida, a simple vista, antes de cambiar una palabra con ellos. | observar repentino | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 0f8bf2e | qd ykwn lmr Sdq kl lSdq fy twlhh bHbh . . | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ed45591 | To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man's requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of human nature, for such an interpretation only breeds in men a multitude of senseless, stupid desires and habits and endless preposterous inventions. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f5d156 | It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 836cc87 | Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4ee7160 | Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature. That is my conviction of forty years. I am forty years old now.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 291022c | Um momento total de felicidade? Sim! E isto nao e o bastante para inundar uma vida? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bbe2568 | kn mkhtlf w lw Srt wHydan | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5be4e15 | Compassion was the principal and, perhaps, the only law of existence for the whole of mankind. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1329822 | When you were talking to me here, I couldn't sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were jilted, because your love was slighted and disregarded, I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fc2a743 | bb Hyn yhylwn `l~ qbry ltrb, fnthr fwqh ftt khbz ffthft `lyh l`Sfyr, f'sm` Swth, fl 'sh`r b'nny wHyd | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3168b2b | warn you that my friend is a compound personality, and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 387e37f | Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even the sacrifice of life for mankind? Is it true that you found a coincidence in beauty, a sameness of pleasure at both poles? ...You married out of a passion for torture, out of a passion for remorse, out of moral sensuality. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9cae70b | Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild animal. Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to h.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f9e8ac9 | As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you. Look into it more carefully! Why, we don't even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books an.. | life dead | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 93f05ad | fhnk nfws Hrthth 'nw` lshq wlmHn wl'Hzn Hrth n SH lt`byr, wSTbrt Twl Hyth w`nt alm Dkhm@ walm tfh@ l nhy@ lh, fl shy ydhshh b`d dhlk, wlw kn kwrth mfjy'@, wl shy ynsyh q`d@ mn qw`d fn lkys@ wltms lmwd@ wlshfq@ lty klfh sty`bh Gly, wlw kn mnZr jthmn '`z mkhlwq ldyh wlst 'Hkm `l~ hw'l lns. flys mSdr hdh `ndhm 'nny@ mbtdhl@ wl trby@ fj@. bl l`l fy hdhh lqlwb mn Sf ldhhb m lys fy qlwb 'bTl lhm mn lnbl '`Zm mZhr; wlkn lt`wd lTwyl `l~ lmdhl@, wGr.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 806e899 | Era o noapte minunata, cum numai in tinerete pot fi noptile, iubite cititorule. Bolta instelata era atat de luminoasa, incat, privind-o, te intrebai fara sa vrei: cum e cu putinta oare, ca sub firmamentul acesta de vraja sa mai existe si oameni posomorati ori cu toane? E foarte tinereasca, desigur, si aceasta intrebare, iubite cititorule, deie Domnul ca ea sa-ti insenineze cat mai des sufletul! Alunecand insa cu gandul la feluriti oameni im.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b269a7b | n lTby`@ tnjb lshdh l'shwh .. thm tqD~ `lyh bdl mn 'n trth~ lHlh wtr'f bh | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aa38556 | I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face!.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b0d1f0e | What does it matter if it's an illness, then?' he decided, at last, 'what does it matter that it's an abnormal tension, if the result itself, if the moment of sensation, recalled and examined in a condition of health, turns out to be the highest degree of harmony and beauty, yields a hitherto unheard-of and undreamed-of sense of completeness, proportion, reconciliation and an ecstatic, prayerful fusion with the highest synthesis of life? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 38be8c4 | I like it when people lie! Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that's honorable in its way; well, but we can't even lie with our own minds! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b37f064 | He doesn't love anyone, and maybe he never will. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bc726de | hnk 'mwr yS`b shrHh. n hdh lflH ytSwr 'n ltlmydh yujldwn fy lmdrs@, w'n l'mwr yjb 'n tkwn kdhlk. m tlmydh l yujld. flw qlt lh bfZZ@ nn l nujld fy lmdrs@ lm fhm shyy' wl'Hznh dhlk | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c217668 | Let us become servants in order to be leaders. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f874aa2 | I, for instance, was triumphant over everyone; everyone, of course, was in dust and ashes, and was forced spontaneously to recognise my superiority, and I forgave them all. I was a poet and a grand gentleman, I fell in love; I came in for countless millions and immediately devoted them to humanity, and at the same time I confessed before all the people my shameful deeds, which, of course, were not merely shameful, but had in them much that .. | loneliness fantasies | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2bd0cc3 | To remember, for instance, that here just a year ago, just at this time, at this hour, on this pavement, I wandered just as lonely, just as dejected as to-day. And one remembers that then one's dreams were sad, and though the past was no better one feels as though it had somehow been better, and that life was more peaceful, that one was free from the black thoughts that haunt one now; that one was free from the gnawing of conscience -- the.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0e60048 | I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way. | loneliness life invention | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| aec4e2d | In every man's memories there are such things as he will reveal not to everyone, but perhaps only to friends. There are also such as he will reveal not even to friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. Then, finally, there are such as a man is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man will have accumulated quite a few things of this sort. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4ab0c27 | The dreamer--if you want an exact definition--is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort. For the most part he settles in some inaccessible corner, as though hiding from the light of day; once he slips into his corner, he grows to it like a snail, or, anyway, he is in that respect very much like that remarkable creature, which is an animal and a house both at once, and is called a tortoise. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cdc787c | And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 43ebe71 | Here is the world to which I am condemned, in which, despite myself, I must somehow live.' I said. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7aba35f | Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 73a562b | Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.' | suicide death god russian-lit fyodor-dostoyevsky russian-literature dostoyevsky russian demons russia | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3cd3b83 | n tlk lHy@ lty t`lwna mn sh'nh kntu s'nhyh bTlq@ musdWs, lkn Hulmy, Hulmy 'n fqd Hamal lyW Hy@an jdyd@, `Zym@, mtjdWd@, wqwyW@! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3177cf8 | Oh, how awful is truth on earth! That exquisite creature, that gentle spirit, that heaven - she was a tyrant, she was the insufferable tyrant and torture of my soul! I should be unfair to myself if I didn't say so! You imagine I didn't love her? Who can say that I did not love her! Do you see, it was a case of irony, the malignant irony of fate and nature! We were under a curse, the life of men in general is under a curse! (mine in particul.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8a1a15a | We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1bb78cc | There are bookish dreams here, sir, there is a heart chafed by theories; | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8cf3695 | all men are divided into 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary.' Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary. But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7e70252 | But of course that is because I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all? Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |