Y también hay que tener en cuenta que siempre que me enfrentaba con un acontecimiento, por insignificante que fuera, me hacía la ilusión de que iba a cambiar radicalmente mi existencia. Fui
Y ahora sé que quien es dueño de su voluntad y posee una inteligencia poderosa consigue fácilmente imponerse a los demás hombres; que el más osado es el que más razón tiene a los ojos ajenos; que quie...
Work without ceasing. If you remember in the night as you go to sleep, I have not done what I ought to have done, rise up at once and do it. If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will...
With the anthill, the respectable race of ants began and with the anthill they will probably end, which does the greatest credit to their perseverance and staidness. But man is a frivolous and incongr...
Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, onesays to oneself, look how cold the world is growing.
What they have is science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. The spiritual world, on the other hand, the loftier half of the man's being, is rejected altogether, cast out with a...
What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the...
Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught...
We are full of hatred, my girl, you and I! We are both full of hatred! As though we could forgive on another! Save him, and I’ll worship you all my life.
Und die liebende Frau, o, die liebende Frau! - die vergöttert sogar die Laster und die größten Schandtaten des geliebten Mannes.
Towards the end I myself could not stand it: as I grew older, a need for people, for friends, developed. I tried to start getting closer with some; but the attempt always came out unnaturally and woul...
Todas las hormigas respetables comenzaron con el hormiguero y probablemente terminarán con él, lo que las honra por su aplicación y su perseverancia. Pero el hombre es una criatura frívola e imprevisi...
Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the point of exasperation, yet I would not care to be in his place as he is now (though I will not stop envying him. No, no; anyway the underground lif...
This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his fait...
These sweet little buds are char-ming for a couple of years when they are young, even for three… and then, well, they spread out forever… producing in their husbands that sad in-dif-fer-ence, which so...
There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family,pleasing presence, average education, to be not stupid, kindhearted,and yet to have no talent at all, no originality, not a s...
The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices
The first thing is to lower the level of education, science and accomplishment.1 A high level of science and accomplishment is accessible only to people of high ability, and there’s no need for high a...
The cabby left, muttering under his nose. What's he muttering about? Mr. Goliadkin thought through his tears. I hired him for the evening, I'm sort of...within my rights nows...so there! I hired him f...
That's as it should be, they tell us. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go, that way, to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with. A perce...