Do you think, you who sold it, that this bottom of yours has been sweet to me? Affliction, I sought affliction at the bottom of it, tears and affliction, and I found them, I tasted them.
Dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!
Considered alone, the railways will not pollute the springs of life, but as a whole they are accursed. The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most p...
Consciousness, for example, is infinitely higher than two times two. After two times two there would, of course, be nothing left – not only to do, but even to learn. The only possible thing to do then...
But what made me furious was that I knew for certain that I should go, that I should make a point of going; and the more tactless, the more unseemly my going would be, the more certainly I would go.
But we realize precisely that if there is no legal right here, there’s a human right, a natural one; the right of common sense and the voice of conscience, and even though this right of ours is not wr...
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
But the greatness of it lies just in the fact that it is a mystery--that the passing earthly show and the eternal verity are brought together in it.
But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who...
Brother, let me ask one thing more: has any man a right to look at other men and decide which is worthy to live?
Bow or not? Call back or not? Recognize him or not? our hero wondered in indescribable anguish, or pretend that I am not myself, but somebody else strikingly like me, and look as though nothing were t...
Believe that God loves you so as you cannot conceive of it; even with your sin and in your sin he loves you.
Açıkyüreklilikte yüzde bir değerinde bile olsa bir nota falsolu oldu mu, uyumsuzluk hemen farkedilir; övmede ise baştan sona bütün notalar falsolu bile olsa, yine de kulağa hoş gelir, zevkle dinlenir.
At once I drink to the health of the artist who painted the picture worthy of Gay, because I love all that is sublime and beautiful.
At first—long before indeed—he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected, and why almost all criminals leave such obvious traces? He...
At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now !I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no...
As soon as you have finished telling us anything, you seem to be ashamed of what you've said, Aglaia observed suddenly. Why is that?
As soon as Russians feel the ground under their feet and are confident that they have reached firm ground, they are so delighted at reaching it that they rush at once to the furthest limit. Why is tha...
As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
And why am I lying down? You must stand 'as an example and a reproach,' she says. , what else can a man destined to be a standing 'reproach' do but lie down--doesn't she see that?