Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Bucear en el alma conduce a menudo a descubrir cosas que mejor sería dejar allí sin descubrir.”

“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life’s impossible; and that I can’t know, and so I can’t live,”

“One fact he had found out since these questions had engrossed his mind, was that he had been quite wrong in supposing from the recollections of the circle of his young days at college, that religion had outlived its day, and that it was now practically non-existent. All the people nearest to him who were good in their lives were believers.”

“You went with the mother and came back with the son,”

“Изобщо ти си натура твърде prime-sautière*,както казват французите;ти желаеш една страстна,енергична дейност или нищо. [*импулсивна]”

“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room with their hats, and were all deliberately getting ready to enjoy the material blessings of life.”

“Anything loved so much, with a daily effort, grows.”

“toute l’amertume de l’existence, lui semblait servie sur son assiette, et, à la fumée du bouilli, il montait du fond de son âme comme d’autres bouffées d’affadissement.”

“Il tomba par terre. Il était mort. Trente-six heures après, sur la demande”

“La conversation de Charles était plate comme un trottoir de rue, et les idées de tout le monde y défilaient dans leur costume ordinaire, sans exciter d’émotion, de rire ou de rêverie. Il n’avait jamais été curieux, disait-il, pendant qu’il habitait Rouen, d’aller voir au théâtre les acteurs de Paris. Il ne savait ni nager, ni faire des armes, ni tirer le pistolet, et il ne put, un jour, lui expliquer un terme d’équitation qu’elle avait rencontré dans un roman. Un homme, au contraire, ne devait-il pas, tout connaître, exceller en des activités multiples, vous initier aux énergies de la passion, aux raffinements de la vie, à tous les mystères ? Mais il n’enseignait rien, celui-là, ne savait rien, ne souhaitait rien. Il la croyait heureuse ; et elle lui en voulait de ce calme si bien assis, de cette pesanteur sereine, du bonheur même qu’elle lui donnait.”

“avec un long frémissement et se cachant la figure, elle s’abandonna.”

“Elle se répétait : « J’ai un amant ! un amant ! » se délectant à cette idée comme à celle d’une autre puberté qui lui serait survenue. Elle allait donc posséder enfin ces joies de l’amour, cette fièvre du bonheur dont elle avait désespéré. Elle entrait dans quelque chose de merveilleux où tout serait passion, extase, délire ;”

“Elle ne se doutait point que l’amour, disparu de sa vie, palpitait là, près d’elle, sous cette chemise de grosse toile, dans ce cœur d’adolescent ouvert aux émanations de sa beauté.”

“It seemed to her that certain places on the earth must yield happiness, like a plant peculiar to that soil and growing poorly anywhere else.”

“Embora ele estivesse separado dela, não a tinha abandonado, estava ali, e as paredes da casa pareciam guardar a sombra dele.”

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel arise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

“ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”

“[...] e essa ideia de ter um filho homem era como a revanche de todas as suas impotências passadas. Um homem ao menos é livre; pode percorrer as paixões e os países, atravessar os obstáculos, ir atrás das alegrias mais distintas. Ao mesmo tempo inerte e flexível, a mulher tem a seu desfavor as fraquezas da carne e as dependências da lei. Sua vontade, como o véu do chapéu retido por uma fita, palpita ao sabor de todos os ventos; sempre há algum desejo que arrasta, alguma conveniência que retém.”

“She did not believe that things could present themselves in the same way in different places, and since the portion of her life lived had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better. Chapter 3 The”

“Her eyes, brimming with tears, glittered like flames seen through water.”