“أنا أستقيل من الإنسانية. لم أعد أريد أن أكون, ولم أعد قادرا على أن أكون -إنسانا. ماذا سأفعل؟ أخدم الأنظمة الإجتماعية والسياسية؟, أسود حياة إمرأة ؟ أتصيد نقاط الضعف في النظم الفلسفية, أناضل من أجل القيم الأخلاقية والجمالية؟ كل ذلك هراء. أنبذ إنسانيتي , حتى وان كنت سأجد نفسي وحيدا. ولكن أنا وحيد على كل حال في هذا العالم الذي لم أعد أنتظر منه أي شيء.”
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“Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse. You perhaps suppose that I am a man of high birth, and I am of a rank either lower than your own or equal to it. I have no talent which can earn money, no employment, no reason to be sure that I shall have anything to eat a few months hence. I have neither relatives nor friends nor rightful claims nor any settled plan. In short, all that I have is youth, health, courage, a modicum of intelligence, a sense of honor and of decency, with a little reading and the bare beginnings of a career in literature. My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes. My nature tends toward extravagance. Such is the man I am. Now answer me, my beautiful Teresa.”
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“The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.”
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“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
― My Childhood
― My Childhood
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