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“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”
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“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“هكذا بهذه الأسئلة إنما كان راسكولنيكوف يعذب نفسه، فكان الإهتياج الذي يحسه من ذلك يستحيل إلى نوع من التلذذ. على ان هذه الأسئلة ليس فيها شيء غير متوقع. إنها غير جديدة عليه، بل هي قديمة جدا. وهي تعذبه منذ زمن طويل. نعم لقد كانت هذه الأسئلة تعذبه وترهقه وتمزق قلبه منذ زمن طويل. لقد كان هذا القلق يشب في نفسه وينمو ويتراكم منذ زمن طويل.. ونضج هذا القلق في الآونة الأخيرة، وتركز وتكثف، فإذا هو يتخذ صورة سؤال رهيب، سؤال وحشي عجيب مسعور، يضني قلبه وفكره، ويطلب جوابا لا سبيل إلى تحاشيه.”
― الجريمة والعقاب 1
― الجريمة والعقاب 1
“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye.”
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