As soon as a man feels in his heart just a drop of some sort of generally human and kindly feeling for something or other, he immediately becomes convinced that no one else feels as he does, that he i...
As for my personal opinion, to love only prosperity is even somehow unseemly. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, smashing something is occasionally very pleasant too.
Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.
Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. I am alone and they are EVERYONE, I thought—and pondered. From
And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live...
And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for a time, hate or love, if only not to sit with your...
And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not in cruel pleasures as now?
And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spre...
And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That’s interesting . . . poor idiot
And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?
And I proclaim that Shakespeare and Raphael are higher than the emancipation of the serfs, higher than nationality, higher than socialism, higher than the younger generation, higher than chemistry, hi...
And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, fo...
An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth.
Am observat ca intr-o incapere prea stramta pana si gandurile ti le simti inghesuite. Iar mie, cand meditam la viitoarele mele romane, imi placea intotdeauna sa ma plimb prin odaie de la un capat la c...
Alyosha, was not at all a fanatic, and, in my view at least, even not at all a mystic. I will give my full opinion beforehand: he was simply an early lover of mankind,1 and if he threw himself into th...
Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without questi...
Alyosha exclaimed. I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world. Love life more than its meaning? Certainly, love it before logic, as you say, certainly before logic, and...
Already even then I had my underground world in my soul. I was fearfully afraid of being seen, of being met, of being recognized.
All this time we sat without speaking. I was considering how to begin. It was twilight in the room, a blackstorm−cloud was coming over the sky, and there came again a rumble of thunder in the distance...
All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.