The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of de...
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.
Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any...
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
لقد تعلموا الكذب و أحبوه و عرفوا مواطن الجمال فيه ،ربما بدأ الأمر بريئاً على سبيل المزاح أو الغنج و الدعابة و اللعب . و حقيقة الأمر أن االبداية كانت ذرة ، و أن ذرة الكذب تلك تسربت الى قلوبهم و أعجبتهم...
أنتَ لا ترى إلا الحقيقة وحدها، فأنت إذن ظالم
That’s precisely what my novel is about. It’s called Demons, and it’s a description of how these demons entered the herd of swine.
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.
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...
Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower
Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like, Porfiry Petrovitch began again, but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I wa...
We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers.
The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
One cannot love what one does not know.
On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst i...
Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!
I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they se...
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?
Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, however...