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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky


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.
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
topics: life-and-death  
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He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible. He heard nothing but the swish of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest. Suddenly, in the midst of his toil, without understanding what it was or whence it came, he felt a pleasant sensation of chill on his hot, moist shoulders. He glanced at the sky in the interval for whetting the scythes. A heavy, lowering storm cloud had blown up, and big raindrops were falling. Some of the peasants went to their coats and put them on; others--just like Levin himself--merely shrugged their shoulders, enjoying the pleasant coolness of it. Another row, and yet another row, followed--long rows and short rows, with good grass and with poor grass. Levin lost all sense of time, and could not have told whether it was late or early now. A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's. But so soon as he recollected what he was doing, and began trying to do better, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of his task, and the row was badly mown.
topics: levin  
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...as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
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It was the fault of destiny!
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Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
topics: irony  
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Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.
topics: books , literature  
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¿Qué mejor cosa que estarse por la noche al amor de la lumbre con un libro, mientras el viento pega en los cristales, y arde la lámpara...?
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وما رفعت نظري أول مرة لأراه حتى قبّلت الشمس وجهي العاري لأول مرة. لأوّل مرة قبلت الشمس وجهي العاري فالتهبت نفسي بمحبة الشمس ولم أعد بحاجة إلى براقعي. وكأنما أنا في غيبوبة صرخت قائلاً: " مباركون مباركون أولئك اللصوص الذين سرقوا براقعي!!" .
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When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
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يا رب! اقبلني رغم حطتي، ولكن لا تحكم عليّ. اللهم اسمح لي أن أجيء إليك دون أن أمثل أمام محكمتك... لا تحكم عليّ، ما دمت قد حكمت على نفسي بنفسي.... لا تحكم عليّ، لأنني أحبك يا رب! اللهم إنني خبيث دنيء، ولكني أحبك، وحتى في الجحيم، إذا أنت أرسلتني إلى الجحيم، سأظل أحبك، وسأظل أهتف لك بحبي إلى الأبد، ولكن دع لي أن أحب حبي الأرضي حتى النهاية.. إسمح لي أن اظل أحب، في هذه الحياة الدنيا، خمس ساعات أخرى، إلى أن تطلع شمسك الدافئة.. إنني أحب ملكة قلبي، ولا أملك أن أمتنع عن حبها، اللهم إنك تراني كلي في هذه اللحظة، سوف أهرع إليها، فأرتمي عند قدميها، وأقول لها: لقد كنت على حق حين نبذتيني، وداعا.. إنسي ضحيتك، ولا تدعي لذكراي أن تعذبك يوما
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Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask virtue of them.
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إن الكذابين العريقين الذين ظلوا ظلوا طوال حياتهم يمثِّلون يبلغون أحياناً من عمق تقمصهم للدور الذي يمثلونه أنهم يرتعشون انفعالاَ ويبكون، رغم قدرتهم على أن يقولوا لأنفسهم في الوقت نفسه (أو بعد بضع دقائق): "أنت تكذب أيها الكاذب العريق! أنت تمثل حتى في هذه اللحظة، رغم غضبك "المقدس" ورغم هذه الدقيقة "المقدسة" من الغضب ".
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جميع الناس يعيبون الخلاعة، ولكنهم جميعا يتعاطونها.
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--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth.
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إن الخطأ هو الميزة التي يمتاز بها الانسان على سائر الكائنات الحية ، من يخطيء يصل إلى الحقيقة ، أنا إنسان لأنني أخطيء. ما وصل امرؤ إلى لحقيقة واحدة إلا بعد أن أخطأ أربع عشرة مرة وهذا في ذاته ليس فيه ما يعيب. ولكن الناس لا يعرفون حتى أن يخطئوا بأنفسهم . لك أن تقول آراء جنونية ولكن لتكن هذه الاراء آراءك أنت ، فأغمرك بالقبل . لأن يخطيء المرء بطريقته الشخصية فذلك يكاد يكون خيرا من تريد حقيقة لقنة إياها غيره . أنت في الحالة الأولى إنسان ، أما في الحالة الثانية فأنت ببغاء لا أكثر.
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I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.
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We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
topics: battle , facts , ingenuity  
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كفى ! تراجعي يا أنواع السراب ! إلى الوراء يا أيتها المخاوف الوهمية ! تقهقري أيتها الأطياف ! الحياة موجودة!
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