Mohamed Sayed

“I have only to go stubbornly on towards my aim, and I shall attain my end", thought Levin; "and it's something to work and take trouble for. This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of the public welfare comes into it. The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of people, must be completely transformed. Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests. In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, then the whole world. Because a just idea cannot but be fruitful. Yes, it's an aim worth working for.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“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”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov