إن الواقعية التي لا ترى ما هو أبعد من الأنف أشد خطرا من الخيال الجامح المجنون، لأنها عمياء.
إن القسوة التي أقترفها عامدًا لم تصدر عن قلبي بل صدرت عن رأسي الخبيث المريض.
إن أقل ما يمكن أن يُقال هو أن الإنسان ، وفي كل مرة يبلغ فيها هدفاً من أهدافه، إلا ونلاحظ عليه شيئاً من : الضجر والقلق والضيق
إذا كنت في البؤس فإنك لا تطرد من مجتمع البشر ضربا بالعصا، بل تطرد منه ضربا بالمكنسة، بغية إذلالك مزيدا من الإذلال
أنا أعلم أنني حين أكون معك أحتاج إلى أن أتكلم ، أن أتكلم ، أن أتكلم ..... فأتكلم إنني حين أكون معك أفقد حب نفسي كله ، وليس يهمني هذا
أقسم ايها السادة ان شدة الادراك مرض ، مرض حقيقي خطير..ان حياة الانسان المألوفة لا تتطلب منه اكثر من ادراك الانسان العادي
Человек любит видеть лучшего своего друга в унижении пред собою; на унижении основывается большею частью дружба; и это старая, известная всем умным людям истина.
Which traditionally aspires to advance virtue by laying vice bare.
Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded.
If Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe.
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...
[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...
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...
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 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 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 have disgraced the name of Russia, madam! shouted the general, and there are police for that!
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...
With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and wou...