Nice Quotes #126: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one
says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing.
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
فإنما الشيء الأساسي أن لا تكذب على نفسك . إن من يكذب على نفسه , ويرضى أن تنطلى عليه أكاذيبه , يصل من ذلك إلى أن يصبح عاجزا عن رؤية الحقيقة في أي موضع , فلا يعود يراها لا في نفسه ولا فيما حوله , وهو ينتهي أخيراً, لهذا السبب , إلى فقد احترامه لنفسه واحترامه لغيره
And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
أري أنه لا يجوز لرجل أن يتحدث عن امرأة إلي شخص آخر. ذلك رأيي أكرره وأصر عليه. أن من تتخذه نجياً وتفضي إليه بأسرارك لن يفهم أبداً.
الملاك نفسه لن يفهم.
حين تحترم امرأة فلا تتخذ لك نجياً تبوح له بأمورك. وإذا كنت تحترم نفسك فلا تفعل ذلك أيضاً.
You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
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