Don't be too anxious on my account. I have but one wish—to be in good health; the tedium is a passing matter, and cheerfulness depends in the last resort upon myself. Human beings have an incredible a...
Des Grieux was like all Frenchmen, that is, cheerful and amiable when it was necessary and profitable, and insufferably dull when the necessity to be cheerful and amiable ceased. A Frenchman is rarely...
But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.
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.
And how they set me up in court! They really set me up! Even if they hadn’t set you up, you’d have been convicted anyway, Alyosha said, sighing. Yes, the local public is sick of me!
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it...
A Christian accepts responsibility whatever his environment. God has not grudged you intelligence--you are capable of answering the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my actions?' Therefore,...
Она казалась гораздо моложе своих лет, что бывает почти всегда с женщинами, сохранившими ясность духа, свежесть впечатлений и честный, чистый жар сердца до старости. Скажем в скобках, что сохранить вс...
Mene ponekad obuzimaju časovi takva jada... Jer mi se već počinje činiti u tim časovima da nipošto nisam sposoban da otpočnem živjeti pravim životom, jer mi se već činilo da sam izgubio svaki takt, sv...
Dupa ce a trecut o linie interzisa pentru el, incepe sa nu i se mai para nimic sfant pe lume, de parca ceva-l impinge sa sara peste orice fel de legalitate si putere si sa se delecteze cu libertatea c...
Ha! ha! ha! But after all, if you like, in reality there is not such thing as choice, you will interrupt with a laugh. Science has even now succeeded in analysing man to such an extent that we know al...
Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet’s question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits...
I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.' Excuse me, gentleman, but I am no...
Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.
But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and brea...
Az mı buluyorusunuz intiharları?- Hem de çok az.- İnsanları kendilerini öldürmekten alıkoyan ne sizce?- Henüz... tam bilmiyorum... iki boş inanç alıkoyuyor sanki, iki şey; yalnızca iki şey; bunlardan...