Upon my word, cried my adversary, annoyed, if you did not want to fight, why did not you let me alone? Yesterday I was a fool, to-day I know better, I answered him gayly. As to yesterday, I believe yo...
You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understan...
Realism that is limited to the end of one's nose is more dangerous than the most insane fantasticality, because it's blind.
And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort
I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I. He longe...
The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the principal characters. But mostly the 'portrait of a truly beautiful person' that dostoe...
People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty.
I'm drunk but truthful.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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...
I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I reall...
Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.
Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be...
هناك أمور يصعب شرحها. إن هذا الفلاح يتصور أن التلاميذ يُجلدون في المدرسة، وأن الأمور يجب أن تكون كذلك. ما تلميذ لا يُجلد. فلو قلت له بفظاظة إننا لا نُجلد في المدرسة لما فهم شيئا ولأحزنه ذلك
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which i...
I've always wanted all or nothing!
إنَّ المرء لتبرأُ نفسهُ وتشفى حينَ يعيشُ مع الأطفال!
In the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to ma...
O sol vai nascer e – olhem para ele, por acaso não é um cadáver? Tudo está morto, e há cadáveres por todas as partes
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