I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.
Man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may th...
He was one of that countless and multifarious legion of vulgar persons, sickly abortions and half-educated petty tyrants who like a flash attach themselves to the current ideas that are most fashionab...
La natura è uno specchio, è lo specchio più trasparente che esista!
The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured...
In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.
Man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering—that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
Money is the honey of humanity.
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he ha...
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if o...
How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have risen to such a revelation of truth?
لماذا تبدو لهم فعلتي شاذة إلى هذا الحد؟ ألا انها جريمة؟ ماذا تعني كلمة جريمة؟ إن ضميري مرتاح. صحيح أن جريمة قد وقعت. صحيح أن نص القانون قد اخترق وأن دما قد سفك. فإذا كان الأمر أمر تقيد بنص القانون فأق...
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...
و لو نظرنا الي جميع انواع البشر لحق لنا ان نسأل من هم اولئك الذين يصمدون في الواقع للامتحان و يبرهنون على انهم اخيار طيبون !
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the undergr...
What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
Oh! what does grief matter—what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy?
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