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“وكأنني كنت متجهًا نحو الهاوية بينما اعتقدت أنني متجه نحو الذروة. هكذا الأمر. فمن وجهة نظر المجتمع كنت متجهًا الى العلى ولكن في حقيقة الامر كانت الحياة تفارقني رويدًا رويدًا وتدفعني باتجاه الهاوية... أمّا الان، فقد انقضى كل شيء. لا شيء باقٍ الا الموت”
― Leo Tolstoy

“إن أجمل ما في الماضي أنه مضى”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“وأفظع ما في الخيال أنك تستفيق منه على الحقيقة المرة”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“لقد أحببتك أكثر من ضوء النهار، أحببتك كما لو كنت ابنتي، أحببت فيك كل شيء يا ماتوشكا، ومن أجلك إنما كنت أعيش على كل حال، من أجلك أنت وحدك كنت أعمل، وأنسخ وثائق، وأمشي، وأتنزه، وأكتب مشاعري على الورق رسائل صادقة، كل هذا لأنك كنت تسكنين قبالتي على مقربة مني”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“تمر بي لحظات أحب أن أكون وحيدة أستسلم لحزني وكآبتي من دون أن يراني أحد. وقد أصبحت هذه اللحظات تكثر في حياتي يومًا بعد يوم”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“يتفق لي أحيانًا أن أخاف مما أحب أن أقوله، ثم إذا هو يفلت من لساني فجأة.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“ولكن أكثر الناس حذرًا وأكثرهم حيطةً لا يضمن ألّا تسقط على رأسه في أي لحظة من لحظات حياته قرميدة من سطح المنزل المجاور”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
― 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

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird. Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped. There have been examples. And what are we doing now? In science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aims, liberalism, judgment, experience and everything, everything, everything, we are still in the preparatory class at school. We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to! Am I right, am I right?" cried Razumihin, pressing and shaking the two ladies' hands.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“انني احبك. وما ينبغي على المرء ان يحب الكمال؛ وانما حسبه من الكمال أن يعرف انه كمال وكفى، أليس هذا صحيحًا؟”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“هل تعلمين ان خير ما يفعله المرؤ احيانا هو ان يصمت؟”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot