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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f92cf5 | nsh`r b'lm lakhryn sh`wran '`mq Hyn nkwn 'shqy m`dhbyn | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3837630 | Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law...and that's enough. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 21ffc82 | You have long needed a change of air. Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer! Maybe Nikolay is right in wanting to suffer. I know you don't believe in it--but don't be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid--the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2d22027 | All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 73c8143 | His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him, is rocking, shifting, sways for a last time, and falls, drawing him into the abyss, and meanwhile the unfortunate man has neither the strength nor the firmness of spirit to jump back, to take his eyes from the yawning chasm; the abyss draws him, and he finally leaps into it himself, himself hastening the mome.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a4a4050 | Her seyi fazlasiyla anlamak bir hastaliktir; gercek, tam manasiyla bir hastalik. Insana, gundelik hayatini surdurmesi icin gereken anlayisin yarisi, hatta dortte biri dahi, talihsiz on dokuzuncu yuzyil aydinimiza yeterdi. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 400085b | Considered alone, the railways will not pollute the springs of life, but as a whole they are accursed. The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 436f8b8 | You see gentlemen, there are ideas . . . that is, you see, when some ideas are said out loud, put into words, they come out terribly stupid. They come out so that you're ashamed of yourself. But why? For no reason at all. Because we're all good-for-nothings and can't bear the truth, or I don't know why else. | truth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8fe0476 | An offence with words is the worst offence.Word kills | Jan Guillou | ||
| 248ffdc | I have to remember it... or Genma-sama'll come to hate me...and then he'll abandon me... What can I do, to become the "Himi" that you want...? What do I have to do to bring back my memories? There's nothing. In my heart, there's nothing..." | Yuki Shimizu | ||
| 0eab8a2 | I have always always been praying in my heart... Always thinking...! If there was a Kami who truly belongs to me. If there was a Kami who only see me as most important...forever by my side, a Kami that only belongs to me... I won't mind killing or letting my life be bound by the Mitou Family. Only with that thought in mind I was able to endure... Only that thought was my support to live on... I thought that was my Kami... A Kami who only be.. | Yuki Shimizu | ||
| e382e46 | If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 6bef1b0 | Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting, spirited critic, he possessed all the qualities of his defects. Jovial and outspoken, he would blister a friend to his face with a thousand sarcasms but, behind his back, he would defend him with courage and loyalty. He made fun of everything, his own prospects included. Always short of money, he remained.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| f1b178a | No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy. | gastronomy melancholy red-inn satiation | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 5ad8d65 | Existe un algo grande y espantoso en el suicidio. Las caidas de muchas personas no son peligrosas, son como las de los ninos, que caen tan a ras del suelo que no se hacen dano; mas cuando un gran hombre se estrella, ha de venir de muy alto, haberse elevado hasta los cielos, haber entrevisto algun paraiso inaccesible. !Cuan implacables han de ser los huracanes que le fuerzan a pedir la paz del alma a la boca de una pistola! !Cuantos talentos.. | realismo-romántico | Honoré de Balzac | |
| e5f3af1 | there is something still more appalling than the ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two sisters. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 561c572 | There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is -- an assemblage of fools and knaves. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 6d76a3c | adore a genoux quand on n'a pas pu l'enterrer sous la boue. La corruption est en force, le talent est rare. Ainsi, la corrup- tion est l'arme de la mediocrite qui abonde, et vous en sentirez partout la pointe. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| d303640 | Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth. | young-ladies | Honoré de Balzac | |
| fbb9be9 | Baskalarinin mutlulugu, artik mutlu olamayacaklarin sevinci olur. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 2a962ec | Paris was a place where one wanted to walk, where to walk--flaner, as the French said--was practically a way of life. ("Ah! To wander over Paris!" wrote Honore de Balzac. "What an adorable and delectable existence is that! Flanerie is a form of science, it is the gastronomy of the eye." | David McCullough | ||
| 73bd354 | Si les Francais ont autant de repugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-etre les Francais et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de meilleur que l'Angleterre, tandis qu'il est excessivement difficile de retrouver loin de la France les charmes de la France. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 88e2ec0 | He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did. | devotion diligence sacrifice work | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 5d1a9b6 | Elle etait jolie par juxtaposition. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 930fd85 | What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings? | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| f67991e | Croyez-le, le veritable amour est eternel, infini, toujours semblable a lui-meme ; il est egal et pur, sans demonstrations violentes ; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de coeur." "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." (Always from Kindle Alexander)" | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| d74f42e | The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings who had either attained to absolute nullity, or were gifted with some abnormal strength of soul. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| c0fa608 | Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that men make for themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a lie between us and our fellows; and pity, and prudence, and terror are cunning lies. And now my happiness is to be one more lying delusion; I am expected to delude myself, to be willing to give gold coin for silver to the end. If you can so easily disp.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 277379a | Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty | happiness women | Honoré de Balzac | |
| a615bd5 | Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a6685fb | This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing too ridiculous for fashion to consecrate. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| f03f734 | J'ai ete enterre sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterre sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la societe tout entiere, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre! | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| fc67a1a | Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voila tout. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 555eceb | Zor gecen gunler vardir, dedim. -Ruhumu okudunuz, dedi. Peki ama, nasil? - O kadar cok bakimlardan birbirimize benziyoruz ki! diye karsilik verdim. Aci cekmek icin de, zevk duymak icin de imtiyazli yaratilmis yaratiklardan- sayisi pek az olan o yaratiklardan- degil miyiz ikimiz de? Bu gibilerin duyarliklari hep birden titresir, icten ice derin yankilar dogurur, sinir duzenleri her seyin olmasi gereken ilkesiyle uyum halindedir. Onlari her s.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 8c7fa4d | You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 5478c2d | However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with vermilion, his waves of red hair and his medley of colors." | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 1bc96df | am fully convinced that it is impossible for a woman, even if she were born close to a throne, to acquire before the age of five-and-twenty the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocent cunning, the speech and the silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit and the obtuseness, the diplomacy and the ignoran.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| dbdb47a | The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas. And in the savage the brain retains, as we may say, but few impressions, it is wholly at the mercy of the feeling that rushes in upon it; while in the civilized man, ideas sink into the heart and change it; he has a thousand interests and many feelings, where the savage has but one at a time. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| efc7e46 | I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 7f62332 | No vivimos nosotros tambien de muertos? Pues ?que son las herencias? | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 832fd6e | A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a9fb08f | Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 0de98f4 | We women never care about anything that no one else will take. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 32fdcd2 | Le monde est un bourbier, tachons de rester sur les hauteurs. | Honoré de Balzac |