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“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Шансов на благополучный исход почти не было. Изношенное сердце, в одном лёгком - множество обызвествлённых очагов. Он прожил на свете всего тридцать пять лет и почти всегда болел. Хроническая язва желудка, кое-как залеченный туберкулёз, а теперь ещё и рак. Из истории болезни известно, что он четыре года состоял в браке, жена умерла от родов, ребёнок - от туберкулёза три года спустя. Родственников никаких. И вот теперь этот полутруп лежал и смотрел на Равика, и не хотел умирать, и был полон терпения и мужества, и не знал, что питаться он будет только через резиновую трубку и никогда больше не сможет вкусить те немногие радости жизни, какие изредка позволял себе - варёную говядину с горчицей и солёными огурцами. Человек без желудка лежал на кровати, весь изрезанный и уже почти разлагающийся, и в глазах у него светилось нечто, называемое душой...”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Жалость самый бесполезный предмет на свете. Она — обратная сторона злорадства.
"Mitleid ist der nutzloseste Artikel, den es auf der Welt gibt«, sagte ich ärgerlich.»Es ist die Kehrseite der Schadenfreude, das sollten Sie wissen.«”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades