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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 401a06c | but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. | hopelessness | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 79ac4d4 | It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f9644ad | Doni te dini me te vertete se kush jam? - Po, kete dua te di. - Ne kuptimin e mirefillte te fjales? - Po. Ne kuptimin e mirefillte.. - Dijeni, pra: jam tip me vete! - Tip me vete? - thirri vajza dhe kukurisi hareshem, shpenguar, si ata qe kane kohe qe nuk kane qeshur me gjithe shpirt. - Qenkeni i lezetshem! Ulemi ne kete stolin ketu? Nuk kalon kush ne kete vend, s'na degjon njeri. Pa he, tregoni tani per veten. Se, sado qe thoni se nuk keni.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0210862 | Quiero ver con mis propios ojos a la cierva durmiendo junto al leon, a la victima besando a su verdugo. Sobre este deseo reposan todas las religiones, y yo tengo fe. Quiero estar presente cuando todos se enteren del porque de las cosas. ?Pero que papel tienen en todo esto los ninos? No puedo resolver esta cuestion. Todos han de contribuir con su sufrimiento a la armonia eterna, ?pero por que han de participar en ello los ninos? No se compre.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b68df47 | And I proclaim that Shakespeare and Raphael are higher than the emancipation of the serfs, higher than nationality, higher than socialism, higher than the younger generation, higher than chemistry, higher than almost all mankind, for they are already the fruit, the real fruit of all mankind, and maybe the highest fruit there ever may be! A form of beauty already achieved, without the achievement of which I might not even consent to live... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 00d98f8 | And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great misfortune -- still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us...better perhaps than we are. | remembrance | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8938d06 | n Hb lbn 'bh ySbH skhf bTl Hyn l yswGh khlq l'b ! , n mthl hdh lHb l ymkn 'n yqblh l`ql , m kn llHb 'n yqwm `l~ l`dm ! l'n llh wHdh ystTy` 'n ykhlq mn `dm , n lrswl bwls ldhy kn qlbh yt'jj Hb qd ktb yqwl "w'ntm 'yh lab l tGyZw 'wldkm" nny 'byH lnfsy 'n stshhd bhdhh layt lmqds@ l l'nny 'fkr fy mwkly fHsb , wnm 'n stshhd bh mtwjh l~ jmy` lab , mn ldhy whb ly Hq 'n '`Zhm bm yq` `l~ `tqhm mn wjb ? l 'Hd ! wlknny 'ndyhm bSfty nsn mwTn , n qmtn `.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 037add4 | Children can be told anything--anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anythi.. | child-rearing children | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5285c79 | wthm@ shy' akhr Zl y`dhbny, whw hdh blDbT : n m mn 'Hdin kn yshbhny, wm shbht 'n 'Hdan | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2ada6e4 | n 'qw~ lldht lt'tyn fy Hl@ ly's tHdydan , khS@ dh sh`rn 'n lm'zq ldhy wq`n fyh, lmhrb mnh | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5102d2d | Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree. | win dying | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5f87e46 | I was laughed at by everyone upon every occasion. But no one knew or guessed that if there was a man on this earth who knew better than anyone how ridiculous I was, that man was myself, and that was the thing that I found most exasperating of all, that they did not know it. | ridiculous-man | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| d9fed06 | Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own real interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else... . Oh, the babe.. | liberation reticence privacy innocence self-interest shame | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3530140 | Finally: I'm bored, and I constantly do nothing. And writing things down really seems like work. They say work makes a man good and honest. Well, here's a chance, at least. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 77eff05 | And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, for it often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are some ... it's just laziness that makes people classify themselves according to appearances, and fail to find anything in common.... But perhaps I am boring you? You.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c90621e | All this time we sat without speaking. I was considering how to begin. It was twilight in the room, a black storm-cloud was coming over the sky, and there came again a rumble of thunder in the distance. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 164b21f | Listen," she said taking my hand. "Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a girl who had come to you of herself, you would not have thrown into her face a shameless taunt at her weak foolish heart? You would have taken care of her? You would have realized that she was alone, that she did not know how to look after herself, that she could not guard herself from loving you, that it was not her fa.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aca5a11 | fnk lm tkhjl mndh qlyl 'n t`trf bjwnbk lsyy'@ wHt~ `ywbk lmDHk@. f'y lns ymlk hdhh ljr'@ lywm?. l 'Hd ymlkh wl 'Hd ysh`r blHj@ l~ 'n yHkm `l~ nfsh .. Hkman mwDw`yWan. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 28a2ef7 | fl ttrdd dhn fy 'n ttmyz `n jmhr@ lns wlw 'msyt wHydan mn nw`k .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5600921 | lk'n mshkl@ lnfs lnsny@, lk'n lmSyr ldhy yntZrn fy lHy@ lakhr@, 'SbHt Gryb@ `n `qwlhm, whm qd nsw wdfnw hdh lnw` mn lhtmmt wltsw'lt mndh zmn Twyl.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f21dc74 | There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they dare not speak the truth directly because of a long-standing, humiliating timidity before them. Believe me, Krasotkin, such buffoonery is sometimes extremely tragic. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 288afea | Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster, though a villain to his children, is still my father simply because he begot me. But this meaning is, so to speak, a mystical one, which I do not understand with my reason, but can only accept by faith, or, more precisely, , like many other things that I do not understand, but that religion nonet.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 701222c | There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest find a new object or idea to worship. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c9f0f1c | in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to "save" him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own." | self-sacrifice pity | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e9632d5 | Do not be afraid of anything, never be afraid, and do not grieve. Just let repentance not slacken in you, and God will forgive everything. 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? Only take care that you repent without ceasing, and chase a.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 691b1ba | Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society. | society | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| a7504fd | Rather than go preaching to people about what they ought to be, show them through your own example. Carry it out yourselves in practice, and everyone will follow you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 824443e | Zdes' D'iavol s Bogom boretsia, a pole bitvy - serdtsa liudei. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b32da64 | Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 36cbcf9 | What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance. That is what is mortifying! Five minutes, only five minutes too late! Had I come five minutes earlier, the moment would have passed away like a cloud, and it would never have entered her head again. And it would have ended by her understanding it all. But now again empty rooms, and me alone. Here the pendulum is ticking; it does not care, it has no pit.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c78169d | Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b16a360 | L'homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout a la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traine et lui cede. | fardeau tentation | Victor Hugo | |
| b135fb6 | There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation. | philosophy | Victor Hugo | |
| 29b8325 | where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e9ae4ad | Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7555aff | Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future. | revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| b038671 | The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8529337 | Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4e2d456 | WILDE: Oh -- Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. Bosie is what became of me. He is spoiled, vindictive, utterly selfish and not very talented, but these are merely the facts. The truth is he was Hyacinth when Apollo loved him, he is ivory and gold, from his re.. | writing love robbie-ross victorians oscar-wilde classics | Tom Stoppard | |
| 7c09050 | I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 52c5dc1 | Ya no estoy muerto, estoy enamorado. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| fc5bffd | to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 6e3abd5 | He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone. Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents .. | life | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| dfc21eb | The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly." | influence future past | Adolfo Bioy Casares |