What terrible tragedies people suffer through realism!
What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to pro...
Um momento total de felicidade? Sim! E isto não é o bastante para inundar uma vida?
Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild ani...
Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute.
To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible.
This is not it, this is not it! No, this is not it at all!
They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy.
They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?
There’s no one here who is worthy of such words!’ Aglaya burst out. ‘None of them, none of them here are worthy of your little finger, nor your heart! You are more honourable than them all, nobler tha...
There is a good deal of posturing here, of romantic frenzy, of wild Karamazovian unrestraint and sentimentality—yes, and also something else, gentlemen of the jury, something that cries out in the sou...
There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it...
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
The point is in life, in life alone—in discovering it, constantly and eternally, and not at all in the discovery itself!
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. It
The dreamer—if you want an exact definition—is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort.
The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.
Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.