If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. However, I have the power to end my existence, although I d...
I remember once I came into his room alone, when no one was with him. It was a bright evening, the sun was setting and lit up the whole room with its slanting rays. He beckoned when he saw me, I went...
I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now — a real child. Oh! you know nothing about it at all, I see.And are you assured, at the same time, that you love Aglaya too?Yes — ye...
I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this f...
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively in...
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Everything with them is ‘the influence of environment,’ and nothing else. Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since ther...
Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an un...
Aspiramos a cosas inconvenientes porque nuestra estupidez nos hace creer que pretendemos lo que nos conviene.
Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me, and I was unlike any one else. I am aline and they are every one, I thought--and pondered. For that it was evident t...
A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word... maybe we might fe...
A dead man has no age
...There,in his foul, stinking cellar, our offended, down-trodden and ridiculed mouse immerses himself in cold, venomous and, cheifly, everlasting spite. For forty years on end he will remember the of...
ولكني أكرر للمرة المائة أن هنالك حالة واحدة، واحدة فقط، يرغب فيها الانسان رغبة مدركة عامدة فيما يضره، وفيما هو الحماقة بعينها – لأنه، ببساطة، يريد أن يمتلك الحق في أن يرغب لنفسه حتى حين يكون من الحماق...
ولكن كيف يكون هذا الإنسان فاضلاً بدون الله ؟. إلى من سيندفع..
ولقد أحسست بأنها كانت تكذب، تكذب كذبا صادقا: فالمرء يمكن أن يكذب كذبا صادقا
وإني لأعتقد بإن أفضل تعريف يمكننا أن نُعرف به الإنسان هو أنه : كائنٌ عاق بساقين !!
هل تعلمين أنني سأقتلك في ذات يوم؟ لا غيرة ولا لأنني أكون قد انتهيت من حبك! لا، وإنما سأقتلك لمجرد أنني أشعر في بعض الأيام برغبة في أن ألتهمك. وإذا قتلتك فسيكون عليّ أن أقتل نفسي أيضا. ولكنني سأؤجل قتل...
ماذا يفيده وماذا يجديه أن يستمر في الصراع والكفاح؟ أيحيا من أجل أن يوجد؟ ألا انه كان طوال حياته مستعدا لأن يضحي بوجوده ألف مرة في سبيل فكرة، في سبيل أمل، بل وفي سبيل تحقيق نزوة! إن الوجود في حد ذاته ل...