Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“...he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.”

“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the”

“That’s it!” said Huck; “they done that last summer, when Bill Turner got drownded; they shoot a cannon over the water, and that makes him come up to the top. Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in ‘em and set ’em afloat, and wherever there’s anybody that’s drownded, they’ll float right there and stop.” “Yes, I’ve heard about that,” said Joe. “I wonder what makes the bread do that.” “Oh, it ain’t the bread, so much,” said Tom; “I reckon it’s mostly what they say over it before they start it out.” “But they don’t say anything over it,” said Huck. “I’ve seen ‘em and they don’t.” “Well, that’s funny,” said Tom. “But maybe they say it to themselves. Of they do. Anybody might know that.” The other boys agreed that there was reason in what Tom said, because an ignorant lump of bread, uninstructed by an incantation, could not be expected to act very intelligently when sent upon an errand of such gravity.”

“Tom se decía que, después de todo, el mundo no era un páramo. Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, uno de los principios fundamentales de la conducta humana, a saber: que para que alguien, hombre o muchacho, anhele alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir. Si hubiera sido un eximio y agudo filósofo, como el autor de este libro, hubiera comprendido entonces que el trabajo consiste en lo que estamos obligados a hacer, sea lo que sea, y que el juego consiste en aquello a lo que no se nos obliga.”

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“-- 'Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about this and they wish they may Drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and Rot.' Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's facility in writing, and the sublimity of his language.”

“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man’s are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men’s misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.”

“Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.”

“La vida es una serie de combinaciones que es preciso estudiar y analizar para llegar a mantenerse siempre en buena posición».”

“Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre no está nunca solo, pues siente estremecerse la vida en torno suyo. El mar es el vehículo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia;”

“Unas medias finas y blancas, un vestido de seda, un bordado de encaje, una bonita zapatilla en el pie, una cinta nueva en la cabeza, no hacen bonita a una mujer fea, pero hacen bella a una mujer bonita,”

“No se dice la nada; en lugar de la nada se dice el más allá, o Dios, o la verdadera vida, o el Nirvana, la redención, la beatitud …”

“Tabla De Contenido Código de Hammurabi (1728) Ley 1: Si uno ha acusado y ha embrujado a otro y no puede justificarse, es pasible de muerte.”

“Andrei Khrisanfitch returned to his room to smoke a little till there was another ring at the door, and Yefimya ceased speaking, subsided, and wiped her eyes, though her lips were still quivering. She was very much frightened of him—oh, how frightened of him! She trembled and was reduced to terror by the sound of his steps, by the look in his eyes, and dared not utter a word in his presence.”

“Pero Cavalcanti se volvió hacia ellos, guiñó los ojos, infló la mejilla con la lengua, e hizo oír un sonido con los labios, que equivale a mil signos de inteligencia entre los bandidos y les obliga a callarse. Aquel signo masónico lo aprendió de Caderousse. Reconocieron en seguida a uno de los suyos.”

“The poet replied: “I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.”

“Vemos aquí que el ganado determina en absoluto la existencia del pino; pero en diferentes regiones del mundo los insectos determinan la existencia del ganado. Quizá el Paraguay ofrece el ejemplo más curioso de esto, pues allí, ni el ganado vacuno, ni los caballos, ni los perros se han hecho nunca cimarrones, a pesar de que al norte y al sur abundan en estado salvaje, y Azara y Rengger han demostrado que esto es debido a ser más numerosa en el Paraguay cierta mosca que pone sus huevos en el ombligo de estos animales cuando acaban de nacer. El aumento de estas moscas, con ser numerosas como lo son, debe de estar habitualmente contenido de varios modos, probablemente por otros insectos parásitos. De aquí que si ciertas aves insectívoras disminuyesen en el Paraguay, los insectos parásitos probablemente aumentarían, y esto haría disminuir el número de las moscas del ombligo; entonces el ganado vacuno y los caballos llegarían a hacerse salvajes, lo cual, sin duda, alteraría mucho la vegetación, como positivamente lo he observado en regiones de América del Sur; esto, además, influiría mucho en los insectos, y esto -como acabamos de ver en Staffordshire- en las aves insectívoras, y así, progresivamente, en círculos de complejidad siempre creciente.”

“Fiecăruia i se pare că viața lui e cea adevărată, iar viața pe care o duce prietenul său este deșartă.”

“Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.”

“Suffering, steadily increasing, did its part in preparing him for death.”