Status Updates From The Insulted and the Injured

... but certain generous feelings have taken strong root in him; he is beginning to take an interest not only in play­ things, but in what is lofty, noble and genuine. His ideas are queer, unstable, sometimes absurd, but his desires, his impulses, his heart— are finer, and that is the foun­dation of everything; and all that is best in him undoubt­edly comes from you. You have remodelled him.

ما اعرف اذا البدايه فقط هي الممله والخاليه من قصه واضحه، وان الكتاب حيصير افضل وفيه تفاصيل احلا بعدين؟ لان حالياً ممل جداً وينعدم وجود قصه فعلياً

So I devised a plan . . . .And what do you think I built it all on? Why, on the fact that dogs always like me, yes, really. I have noticed it. It’s either because there’s some magnetism in me, or else it’s because I’m fond of all animals. I don’t know, only dogs do like me, and that’s all there is to it. And, by the way, talking of magnetism, I haven’t told you yet, Natasha, we called up spirits the other day, . . .

The tone was such that I was in despair. My father had never spoken to me like that; ‘Lisbon would sooner be swallowed up in an earthquake than I should fail to get my own way’— that’s the sort of tone it was!”

A minute later we were all laughing as though we were crazy.

А только будь честен, Ваня, будь честен, это главное; живи честно, не возмечтай! Перед тобой дорога широкая. Служи честно своему делу; вот что я хотел сказать, вот именно это-то я и хотел сказать!

We shall have to win the right to our future happiness by further suffering; buy it with some new agonies. Suffering purifies everything.
Oh, Vanya, how much pain there is in the world!”