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1. "But how could you live and have no story to tell?" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. "...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. "Ako si se uputio prema cilju, i putem poceo da zastajkujes i kamenjem gadjas svakog psa koja na tebe laje, nikada neces stici na cilj." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. "A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. "Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. "If they knew that they are happy, they would be happy." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. "There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. "Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter- this is what life is, herein lies its task. I have come to recognize this. This idea has entered into my flesh and blood. Yes, it's true! That head which created, lived b the hightes life of art, which acknowledged and had come to know the highest demands of the spirit, that head has been cut from my shoulders. Memory remains, and the images I have created and still not molded in flesh. They will leave their harsh mark on me, it is true! But my heart is left me, and the same flesh and blood which likewise can love and suffer and desire and remember, and this is, after all, life. on voit le soleil!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. "O Zot! Të provosh qoftë edhe vetëm një minutë lumturie të madhe, të vërtetë, pse pak qënka kjo për një jetë njeriu?..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. "Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man...they should, surely they should! It is man's own duty to arrange it so; it is his law--a hidden but surely existing one..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. "Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s'i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht, i shqetesojne, i bezdisin me ankesat pa fund. Po, moj shpirt, varferia kurdohere e bezdisshme eshte. Ja ç'eshte, Varenjka. Renkimet e te uriturve, klithmat e zemerplasurve u prishin gjumin ca zoterinjve." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. "What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.' I don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was that he wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colours." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. "He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14. "Man get used to everything; a scoundrel!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. "Në plan të parë nxorrën logjikën, por kjo shoqërohet me mërzinë." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
16. "The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation......everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17. "Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither the branding irons nor chains will make him forget that he is a man." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. "One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there's still no end. All the ends are cut off as if with a pair of scissors." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. "A ako patnje djece samo popunjavaju onu kolicinu patnje koja je bila potrebna da se otkupi istina, onda unaprijed tvrdim da sva istina ne vrijedi toga...Ja ne želim harmoniju, ne želim je iz ljubavi prema covjecanstvu. Radije cu ostati sa svojim neosvecenim patnjama. Radije cu ostati na svojoj neosvecenoj patnji i na svom neiskaljenom ogorcenju, makar i ne bio u pravu. Pa i previsoku su cijenu odredili toj harmoniji, nije za naš džep tolika ulaznica. I zato hitam da vratim svoju ulaznicu. Ako sam pošten covjek, dužan sam je što prije vratiti. To upravo i cinim. Nije da ja Boga ne priznajem, Aljoša, nego mu samo najponiznije vracam ulaznicu." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. "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, for it often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are some ... it's just laziness that makes people classify themselves according to appearances, and fail to find anything in common.... But perhaps I am boring you? You seem ..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. "The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. "- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with illness.- Why do evil?- So that everything will be destroyed. Oh, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed! You know, Alyosha, I sometimes think of doing a lot of harm. I would do it for a long while secretly and then suddenly everyone would find out. Everyone will stand around and point their fingers at me and I will look at them all. That would be awfully nice." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
23. "For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. "viata e un rai în care toti ne desfatam, numai ca noi nu vrem sa ne dam seama de asta, caci daca am vrea, chiar mîine tot pâmîntul ar fi un rai." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. "You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26. "Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. "you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. "But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. "Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse still, in covetousness, they will come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly… be not extortionate… . Do not love gold and silver, do not hoard them… . Have faith. Cling to the banner and raise it on high." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30. "Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
31. "And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32. "(...) ¿qué has hecho con tus sueños?, ¿dónde has enterrado los mejores días de tu vida?, ¿has vivido o no? ¡Mira, se dice uno, mira cómo todo se congela en el mundo! Pasarán más años y tras ellos llegará la triste soledad, llegará báculo en mano la trémula vejez, y en pos de ella la tristeza y la angustia. Tu mundo extraordinario perderá su colorido, se marchitarán y morirán tus sueños y caerán como las hojas secas de los árboles" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
33. "Vorrei penetrare il suo segreto, vorrei che lei venisse da me e mi dicesse: "Io ti amo", e se non è così, se questa follia non è pensabile, allora... allora che cosa desiderare? Forse so io stesso quel che desidero? Sono anch'io come sperduto: vorrei soltanto starle accanto, essere nella sua aura, nella sua luce, eternamente, per tutta la vita. Altro non so! Potrei forse allontanarmi da lei?" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34. "Let us be servants in order to be leaders." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
35. "My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! Savez-vous, perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and...and not believe one's own lie, yes, yes, that's precisely it!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
36. "Las e acela care se teme si fuge, acela însa care se teme, dar nu fuge, nu este tocmai un las." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
37. "Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38. "In place of dialectics, life had arrived." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39. "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
40. "Hang your merit. I dont seek anyone approbation." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41. "Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. "Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!..." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
43. "In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. "But of course that is because I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all? Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself?" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. "I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
46. "«Soy un soñador. Hay en mí tan poca vida real, los momentos como este, como el de ahora, son para mí tan raros que me es imposible no repetirlos en mis sueños. Voy a soñar con usted toda la noche, toda la semana, todo el año.»" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47. "— Tineam sa-ti împartasesc o dorinta de-a mea. Uite, grozav as vrea sa ma chinuiasca cineva, un om care sa se în-soare cu mine si apoi sa ma chinuiasca, sa ma însele, si-n cele din urma sa ma paraseasca, sa plece. Nu vreau sa fiu fericita !— îti place haosul ?— Ah, da, haosul, asta doresc ! As avea pofta sa dau foc casei. Caut mereu sa-mi închipui cum ar fi daca m-as duce si i-as da foc pe furis, asa, tiptil-tiptil. Toata lumea se munceste sa-l stinga, si focul arde înainte, iar eu, stiind ce s-a întîmplat, tac chitic. Stiu si tac chitic. Vai, ce tîmpenie. Groaznic ma plictisesc !" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48. "Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
49. "I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
50. "I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living to sixty myself. To seventy! To eighty!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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