Perhaps it was because a terrible anguish had developed within my soul, occasioned by a circumstance which loomed infinitely larger than my own self: to be precise, it was the dawning conviction that...
Oh! what does grief matter—what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy?
Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life...But on the whole you will bless life all the same.
Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.
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.
If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort of spring fever.
I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think...
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.
I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God and not kill himself at once. To recognize that there is no God, and not to recognize at the same time that you have become God...
I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards and the Hussars, and fine ladies; at those moments I felt a spa...
I am X in an indeterminate equation.
Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surf...
But then, we have science, and with its help we shall discover Truth once more; then we shall accept it in full knowledge. Knowledge is of a higher order than feeling; awareness of life is of a higher...
Beautiful and sublime.
We keep imagining eternity as an idea that cannot be grasped, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, imagine suddenly that there will be one little room there, something l...
The more conscious I was of all the good and of all this "beautiful and lofty," the deeper I kept sinking into my mire, and the more capable I was of getting completely stuck in it. But the main featu...
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يجب أن نعلن بغير تردد أنه ليس يكفي المرء أن ينسل نسلا حتى يكون أبا ‘ وإنما ينبغي له أن يستحق شرف هذا الاسم ، أنا أعلم أن هناك رأيا مختلفا عن هذا الرأي ، أن هناك فهما آخر لمعنى كلمة الأب ، هو أن أبي يظ...