One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quic...
Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It is a profound thing. It strengthens people’s hearts and...
O da bütün bunları çok iyi biliyordu; benim için erişilmez oluşundan, ona dair tüm hayallerimin imkansızlığı düşüncesinden de muazzam bir keyif aldığına kalıbımı basarım; aksi takdirde onun gibi temki...
Now, I did know a certain young lady of the 'romantic' generation of not so long ago who, after being mysteriously in love for several years with a certain gentleman whom she could have married at any...
Not that I will ever believe there is nothing in common between any two people, as some declare is the case. I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances;
No, I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it! Granted, granted that there is no flaw in all that reasoning, that all that I have concluded this last month is clear as day, true as arithmetic… . My God! Anyw...
No doubt it is devastating. One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced. How? By what? By the experience of active love. Try to love your neighbors actively and tirelessly. The...
Moje słowa nie odpowiadają moim myślom, a to poniża moje myśli.
Meanwhile, genuine equality says: What do I care if you are more talented than I, more clever, more handsome? I'm glad for it, rather, because I love you. But though I may be less important to you, I...
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, wo...
Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have come to pass in it without them.
Leiden und Schmerz sind für eine umfassende Erkenntnis und für ein tiefes Herz seit jeher unerläßlich.
Kurnaz insanlar böylesi basit şeylerden tuzağa düşerler. İnsan ne kadar kurnazsa, basit şeylerden tuzağa düşürüleceğinden o kadar az kuşku duyar.
Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man, but I don't know how to behave with dignity. Do you understand that it may be so? All Russians...
It’s your rich life, Alyosha said softly. Why, is it better to be poor? Yes, it is.
It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on the whole bent of my mind, and who perhaps has even cast his shadow over the...
It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offenc...
It is a year and eight months since I last looked at these notes of mine. I do so now only because, being overwhelmed with depression, I wish to distract my mind by reading them through at random. I l...