Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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.”

“As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys. The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed, too, which illustrated their sweet, generous natures, and the people could easily see, now, how noble and beautiful those episodes were, and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities, well deserving of the cowhide. The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit.”

“Yo te adoro… Yo te adoro al igual que la bóveda nocturna, Oh, vaso de tristeza, oh gran taciturna, Y te amo lo mismo, bella, cuando tú me huyes, Y cuando me pareces, ornamento de mis noches, Más irónicamente acumular las leguas Que separan mis brazos de las inmensidades azules.”

“-¡Quizá porque no es posible verte sin quererte, Dora”

“Confieso que he estado más ciego que un topo, pero más vale aprender tarde que no aprender nunca.”

“todas las supersticiones conocidas en el mundo están reunidas en la herradura de los Cárpatos, como si fuese el centro de alguna especie de remolino imaginativo;”

“En países semicivilizados, de comunicación poco libre, la difusión de una nueva sub-raza sería un proceso lentísimo. Tan pronto como los rasgos característicos son conocidos, el principio, como lo he llamado yo, de la selección inconsciente tenderá siempre -quizá más en un período que en otro, según que la raza esté más o menos de moda; quizá más en una comarca que en otra, según el estado de civilización de los habitantes- a aumentar lentamente los rasgos característicos de la raza, cualesquiera que sean éstos.”

“Me pregunto quién definió al hombre como animal racional. Fue la definición más prematura que se ha dado nunca. El hombre es muchas cosas, pero no racional.”

“Sucede lo que los médicos dicen del tísico: que al principio su mal es difícil reconocer, pero fácil de curar, mientras que, con el transcurso del tiempo, al no haber sido conocido ni atajado, se vuelve fácil de conocer, pero difícil de curar.”

“El origen de la mayor parte de nuestros animales domésticos, probablemente quedará siempre dudoso. Pero puedo decir que, considerando los perros domésticos de todo el mundo, después de una laboriosa recopilación de todos los datos conocidos, he llegado a la conclusión de que han sido amansadas varias especies salvajes de cánidos, y que su sangre, mezclada en algunos casos, corre por las venas de nuestras razas domésticas.”

“more readily,”

“From Varenka she understood that you had only to forget yourself and love others and you would be calm, happy and beautiful.”

“كثيراً ما أظن الرجال لا يفهمون ما يتصل بالشرف، مع أنهم لا يفتأون يتحدثون عنه ويتشدقون به!”

“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new." "Well, then, it would be better not to study it.”

“..а един друг глас в душата му казваше,че човек не трябва да се подчинява на миналото и че може да направи всичко със себе си.”

“when things are made awkward by people’s excessive compliance and submission, they are soon made unbearable by their excessive demandingness and fault-finding.”

“Affermazione di libertà che lo innalzava nella stima di se stesso. Era come l'iniziazione al mondo, l'accesso ai piaceri proibiti. Non le piaceva il mare se non in tempesta, e l'erba se non quando era disseminata tra la rovine. Bisognava che potesse ricavare dalle cose una specie di profitto personale, e respingeva come inutile tutto quello che non contribuiva a riempire il suo cuore: di temperamento più sentimentale che artistico ricercava emozioni e non panorami.”