Who could say that human nature can endure such a trial without slipping into madness? Why this ghastly, needless outrage? Perhaps there is a man to whom the death sentence was read and who was allowe...
Usted no es de los que pueden vivir sin ocupación: usted necesita trabajar, tener un objetivo y perseguirlo tenazmente.
Where's the bit about Lazarus? he asked.
Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a...
Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot.
Vorrei penetrare il suo segreto, vorrei che lei venisse da me e mi dicesse: Io ti amo, e se non è così, se questa follia non è pensabile, allora... allora che cosa desiderare? Forse so io stesso quel...
Where did the light come from on the first day?
We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken.
We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of distances, by the transmitting of thoughts through the air. Alas, do not...
When you’re older, you will see yourself what significance age has upon convictions.
We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth.
What’s going on there I don’t understand and have never understood: either she loves you beyond all bounds, or… if she loves you, then why does she want to get you married to someone else? She says: I...
She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and...
Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation and insignificance! I went on raving. Devil knows, maybe there is in the knout, t...
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
…we here are unbelievers only out of carelessness, because we don’t have time: first, we’re too beset with business, and second, God gave us too little time, he only allotted twenty-four hours to a da...
When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions.
We must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N. - once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
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