Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And w...
A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes we live, you and I, Nastenka, so torpidly, slowly, insipidly; in his eyes w...
Everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the...
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But...
But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get b...
....I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, ev...
Without God all things are permitted.
يتفق للمرء أحيانًا أن يلقى أناسًا لا يعرفهم البتة فإذا هو يهتم بهم منذ أول نظرة قبل أن يبادلهم كلمة واحدة.
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 !
هل يستطيع إنسان يتمتع بالإدارك أن يحترم نفسه؟
إن هذا التعود على الشرّ هو ما ينبغي أن نحزن لهـ .
Здесь Дьявол с Богом борется, а поле битвы - сердца людей.
Măritişul ei fusese, fără doar şi poate, efectul unor influenţe străine, rezultatul frămîntârilor unui suflet captiv
Il m’aimait tout en me haïssant ; cet amour est de tous le plus fort...
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...
You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed. But why is it contemptible? Can you imagine that I am ash...
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincip...
Stupidity is honest and straightforward.