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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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إن ما يبقى في أعماق النفس من أمور أكثر كثيراً مما يظهر في الكلمات .. ما ظل تفكيرك في داخلك ، فإنه مهما يكن ضعيفاً يظل أعمق مما حين تُفصح عنه . إن تفكيرك ، متى عبرت عنه ، يصبح أقرب إلى الإضحاك وأبعد عن الصدق
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
And what does it mean - ridiculous? What does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
Дура с сердцем и без ума такая же несчастная дура, как и дура с умом без сердца. Старая истина
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.
إن الإنسانية ستجد في نفسها القدرة على أن تحيا للفضيلة , سواء أآمنت بخلود الروح أم لم تؤمن
I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.
All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting it. And now, too, every day I want it not to be words.
On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst in this moment to kiss, weeping tears, that very earth which I left and I do not desire or accept life on any other !
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3137322.Fyodor_Dostoyevsky?page=19