I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.
I really feel obliged to go to this confounded luncheon.
I left proud, but with my spirit crushed.
I grieve for my little son, father, for my little son.
I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty?...
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I
He who loves men, loves their joy.
For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal.
Everything seems stupid when it fails.
Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything...
Do not be afraid of anything, never be afraid, and do not grieve. Just let repentance not slacken in you, and God will forgive everything. There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that...
Dear Nastenka, I know I describe splendidly, but, excuse me, I don't know how else to do it. At this moment, dear Nastenka, at this moment I am like the spirit of King Solomon when, after lying a thou...
Così sentivo diventare comprensibile per me la strana ostinazione di quel cuore casto, che si chiudeva per un certo tempo, opponendo al proprio desiderio di sfogarsi la maggior rigidezza, fino al mome...
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
But he did love people; he lived all his life, it seemed, with complete faith in people, and yet no one ever considered him either naive or a simpleton. There was something in him that told one, that...
But Ippolit Kirillovitch was encouraged; he had never been applauded before! He had been all his life unable to get a hearing, and now he suddenly had an opportunity of securing the ear of all Russia.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.