إنَّ المرء لتبرأُ نفسهُ وتشفى حينَ يعيشُ مع الأطفال!
أقسم أيها السادة أن شدة الإدارك مرض – مرض حقيقيخطير
We've got facts, they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over the body and spirit of a human creature like himself, a creature created in the...
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover,...
I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious ever...
Beauty is a riddle
Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect f...
You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world!...
The righteous man departs, but his light remains.
She’s drunk herself out of her senses,
Life had stepped into the place of theory
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life....