Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it couldcome to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. Thedream embraced thousands of years and left in me only asense of the whole. I only kn...
You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings
You have disgraced the name of Russia, madam! shouted the general, and there are police for that!
You laugh like a little child, but you think like a martyr.
You mustn’t think to embarrass them with your witnessing, Your Excellency; they won’t be embarrassed.
You say I haven’t any orginality. But mark this, dear Prince, there’s nothing more annoying for a man of our time and race than to tell him he’s not original, a weak character with no special talents,...
You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you...
You've finally understood! Kirillov cried out rapturously. So it can be understood, if even someone like you understands! You understand now that the whole salvation for everyone is to prove this thou...
You've turned to wood, he observed, you've not only renounced life, your own interests and society's, your duty as a citizen and a human being, your friends (all the same you did have them), you've no...
Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be.
[The Devil] This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died...
[The Devil] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to come. If it does come, then everything will be resolved and mankind will finally...
[The Devil] And after all, who knows whether proof of the devil is also proof of God? I want to join an idealist society and form an opposition within it: 'I'm a realist,' I'll say, 'not a materialist...
[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind, that's where the business should start! One should begin with that, with that--oh, b...
As if you’re admiring your own psychology and are grasping at every tiny detail, in order to astonish the reader with your insensitivity which is not a part of you. What is this if not the proud chall...
Avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
How easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one’s self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable.
إن العقل لا سلطان له على أناس مثل بتروف إلا بمقدار ما تكون نفوسهم خالية من الرغبة في شيء من الأشياء، حتى إذا شبت في نفوسهم هذه الرغبة لم تحل بينهم وبين تحقيق إرادتهم أي عقبات
إن الفقر ليس خطيئة, وإنما الخطيئة أن يكون المرء غنيا فيُهين الآخرين
إن القسوة التي أقترفها عامدًا لم تصدر عن قلبي بل صدرت عن رأسي الخبيث المريض.
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