Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I certainly was in some uneasiness. I was, of course, not accustomed to society of any kind. At school I had been on familiar terms with my schoolfellows, but I was scarcely friends with anyone; I made a little corner for myself and lived in it. But this was not what disturbed me. In any case I vowed not to let myself be drawn into argument and to say nothing beyond what was necessary, so that no one could draw any conclusions about me; above all—to avoid argument.”
“Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”
“He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.”
“Months and years!' he would exclaim. 'Why recon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness.”
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“When I am upstairs in my little garret I have only to remember and imagine the rustle of your dress, and I am ready to bite off my hands.”
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold. Now”
“...in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.”
“All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.”
“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible.”
“هل يمكن أن تكون امرأةٌ خاليةً من الدناءة؟ لهذا ينبغي أن يعلو الرجل عليها، لهذا خُلقت مخلوقا مطيعا. المرأة رذيلة وإغراء، والرجل نبل وكرم. وستبقى الحال على هذا المنوال إلى آخر الدهر”
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simplehearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”
“إننا لا نستطيع أن نحب إنسانا إلا إذا ظل مختفيا عن نظرنا. فمتى لمحنا وجهه تبدد الحب”
“When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in such a position.”
“Sometimes she put that question to her husband, and, as usual, she asked it hysterically, threateningly, expecting an immediate reply.”
“Io sono un sognatore; ho vissuto così poco la vita reale che attimi come questi non posso non ripeterli nei sogni". Da "Le notti bianche”
topics: dostoyevsky-le-notti-bianche
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.