Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij: Citáty anglicky

Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij byl ruský spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.
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“The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Zdroj: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I

“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Zločin a trest

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man…”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“It was evident that he revived by fits and starts. He would suddenly come to himself from actual delirium for a few minutes; he would remember and talk with complete consciousness, chiefly in disconnected phrases which he had perhaps thought out and learnt by heart in the long weary hours of his illness, in his bed, in sleepless solitude.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it’s not true and that it’s blushing just as I am now, all over.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kirilov, Part III, Ch. VI, "A busy night"
The Possessed (1872)

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Zločin a trest

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn’t mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Notes from Underground

Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Zločin a trest

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart — my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Zdroj: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they’ve slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, ‘Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!’ And so it will be to the end of the world, even when gods disappear from the earth; they will fall down before idols just the same.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead ofnearer to it — at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“I could never stand more than three months of dreaming at a time without feeling an irresistible desire to plunge into society. To plunge into society meant to visit my superior, Anton Antonich Syetochkin. He was the the only permanent acquaintance I have had in my life, and I even wonder at the fact myself now. But I even went to see him only when that phase came over me, and when my dreams had reached such a point of bliss that it became essential to embrace my fellows and all mankind immediately. And for that purpose I needed at least one human being at hand who actually existed. I had to call on Anton Antonich, however, on Tuesday — his at-home day; so I always had to adjust my passionate desire to embrace humanity so that it might fall on a Tuesday.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Notes from Underground

Part 2, Chapter 2 (page 56)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Elder Zossima, speaking to Mrs. Khoklakov
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“If I seem happy to you… You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)