“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Nuestro pasado, por lo común, es una vergüenza, y no puede uno ser leal con el pasado a costa de ser desleal con el presente. Quiero decirte que no hay peor calamidad que un hombre que no escucha su propio juicio.”
― The Dream of Heroes
― The Dream of Heroes
“Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Just so. But hesitation, suspense, conflict between belief and disbelief- is sometimes such torture to a conscientious man, such as you are, that it's better to hang oneself at once.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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