I am glad that at such a moment my young man turned out to be not so reasonable; the time will come for an intelligent man to be reasonable, but if at such an exceptional moment there is no love to be...
He expressed unconditional agreement with the uselessness and absurdity of the word ‘fatherland’; he agreed with the idea that religion was harmful;33 but he loudly and firmly asserted that boots were...
He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.
For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia – that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. I’ve already mentioned this above. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous peopl...
For suffering, Rodion Romanovitch, is a great thing.
Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all guilty, and...if only we were all convinced of it!
But no, no, I am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am right, for I cannot hurt you in any way, I cannot wound you! I was your friend, but I am still your fr...
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and h...
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and...
As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said to himself: I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no compromis...
As always, I do not blame anyone. I've tried great debauchery and exhausted my strength in it; but I don't like debauchery and I did not want it. You've been observing me lately. Do you know that I ev...
And indeed, what aim in life is more important and sacred than a father’s? To what should one adhere, if not to one’s family?
Am văzut nenumărați oameni cărora e destul să le torni o găleată de apă rece în cap, ca să-și renege nu numai faptele, dar și ideile, care sunt gata să râdă primii de ceea ce socoteau sfânt cu un ceas...
All this time we sat without speaking. I was considering how to begin. It was twilight in the room, a black storm−cloud was coming over the sky, and there came again a rumble of thunder in the distanc...
A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.
A man's perishing here, a man's vanishing from his own sight here, and can't control himself--what sort of wedding can there be!
A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to.
Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits from it! And they've got used to it. They wept at first, but now they are use...
چرا برای یک نفر دیگر اشک میریزی؟ اشکهایت را نگهدار برای وقت ماتم خودت، وقتی تنها شدی! وقتی تنهایی خواست دلت را بشکند و کسی را نداشتی...
يُخيَّلُ إليَّ أنَّ الإنسان، حينَ يداهمهُ هلاكٌ لا سبيلَ إلى تحاشيه، كانهيارِ منزلٍ فوقه مثلاً، إنما يشعرُ عندئذٍ برغبةٍ لا تقاومُ في أن يقعدَ مغمضًا عينيه، وليحدث ما يحدث!