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...
It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart and fear less.
To this day it is as if I can still hear the back of her head hit the carpet.
Man loves to construct and lay down roads, no question about it. But why is he so passionately fond of destruction and chaos? [...] Isn't man so passionately fond of destruction and chaos (and there's...
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...
True love finds its consummation.
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder...
And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and no...
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned t...
I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.
La civilización no ha hecho al hombre más sanguinario, pero sí más vil, más cobardemente sanguinario.
He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.
Well, set the monster free...he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy...but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
It was impossible to tell at first sight whether he loved his meek, obedient wife, Marfa. But he really did lover her, and she knew it.
لماذا تخلقُ الطبيعةُ أفضلَ الناسِ لتسخرَ منهم بعدَ ذلك؟ هذا ما تعمدُ إليهِ الطبيعة: حينَ أظهرتِ البشرَ على الإنسانِ الوحيد الذي عُدَّ الإنسانَ الكاملَ في هذا العالَم، عهِدتْ إليهِ برسالةِ أنْ ينطقَ بأ...
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.
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as...
Listen, she said taking my hand. Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a girl who had come to you of herself, you would not have thrown into her face a...
Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy ser...
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