And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?
And again one asks oneself what has one done with one's years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not?
An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth.
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 brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who dese...
Already even then I had my underground world in my soul. I was fearfully afraid of being seen, of being met, of being recognized.
Adeseori, un om rabda in tacere ani de-a randul, indura resemnat cele mai crunte pedepse, dar deodata il vezi rabufnind dintr-o nimica toata, pentru te miri ce lucru neinsemnat, incat ramai uluit si t...
Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our last epoch—that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, seeking for it and believing in it, and seeking to serve it at once with all the strengt...
Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls in...
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad...
ALEXEY Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic deat...
A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and o...
A dream is a strange thing. Pictures appear with terrifying clarity, the minutest details engraved like pieces of jewelry, and yet we leap unawares through huge abysses of time and space. Dreams seem...
Может быть, тут всего более имела влияния та особенная гордость бедных, вследствие которой при некоторых общественных обрядах, обязательных в нашем быту для всех и каждого, многие бедняки таращатся из...
They ate the apple, and knew good and evil, and became 'as gods.' And they still go on eating it. But little children have not eaten anything and are not yet guilty of anything...If they, too, suffer...
He was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different, from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely person...
A friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory of one of these numberless friends of mankind, and he is ready at once t...
To celebrate my first hour of freedom. It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off. I could never have guessed, even yesterday how easy it would be to put an end to it if...
Je pense qu'on doit aimer la vie par-dessus tout.-Aimer la vie, plutôt que le sens de la vie?-Certainement. L'aimer avant de raisonner, sans logique, comme tu dis; alors seulement on en comprendra le...
إنه لمن الشائق أن نعرف ما الذي يخافه البشر أكثر ما يخافون, إن ما يخافه البشر أكثر ما يخافون هو أن يتقدموا خطوة إلي الأمام, هو أن يقولوا كلمة شخصية