Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter. They
…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with
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...
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And...
The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly...
وأزدادت وطأة وحدتي وصمتي حتى أصبحتُ لا أجرؤ على أن أخرج منها...
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
فهناك أناس يحبون أن يعتقدوا أن مُضطهدون مُهانون..
You will behold great sorrow, and in this sorrow be happy.
Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the world go to hell, or should I go without my tea now? I'll say let the world go to hell so long as I...
There is strength to endure everything.
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.
That makes it worse! Worse and better!
Suffering is life.
Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before You today.’ For every hour, every second, thousands of men leave this world and their soul...
Quando se ama, não dura muito o ressentimento.