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The Adolescent QUOTES

The Adolescent QUOTES

21 " Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

22 " To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

23 " I suffered all evening, all night, I'm partly suffering now as well. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

24 " I speak as a judge and I know that I was guilty. Even in the whirl in which I was caught up, and though I was alone without a guide or counsellor, I was, I swear, conscious of my downfall, and so there's no excuse for me. And yet, for those two months I was almost happy -- why, almost? I was quite happy! And so happy -- would it be believed -- that the consciousness of my degradation, of which I had glimpses at moments (frequent moments!) and which made me shudder in my inmost soul, only intoxicated me more. "What do I care if I'm fallen! And i won't fall, I'll get out of it! I have a lucky star!" I was crossing a precipice on a thin plank without a rail, and I was pleased at my position, and even peeped into the abyss. It was risky and it was delightful. And "my idea"? My "idea" later, the idea would wait. Everything that happened was simply "a temporary deviation." "Why not enjoy oneself?" That's what was amiss with my idea. I repeat, it admitted of all sorts of deviations; if it had not been so firm and fundamental I might have been afraid of deviating. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

25 " فلما صدق توقعي ابتسمت... لأن المرء يبتسم دائما حين يصدق توقعه "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

26 " În epoca noastră sunt în floare mediocritatea și nepăsarea, cultul inculturii, lenea, incapacitatea și pretenția de a primi totul de-a gata. Nimeni nu-și mai pune probleme, rar întâlnești un om frământat de o idee. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

27 " Realism that is limited to the end of one's nose is more dangerous than the most insane fantasticality, because it's blind. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

28 " What’s more, the awareness I have that no matter how ridiculous and humiliated I may seem, there lies within me that treasure of strength which will someday make them all change their opinion of me, this awareness – almost since the humiliated years of my childhood – then constituted the only source of my life, my light and my dignity, my weapon and my consolation, otherwise I might have killed myself while still a child. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

29 " People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

30 " I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over! "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

31 " ثم لماذا يجب عليّ أن أحب جاري، أو أن أحب الإنسانية المقبلة التي تتحدثون عنها، الإنسانية التي لن أراها يوما، والتي لن تعرفني يوما، والتي ستزول هي أيضا من غير أن تخلف لا أثرا ولا ذكرى؟ "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

32 " تعرفون أن الإنسان الذي لا يؤمن بالمعجزات يكون أميل من غيره إلى الإيمان بالأوهام "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

33 " إن هذا الحب الوحشي المسعوريوافي المرء كما توافيه نوبة، ويفعل فيه كما يفعل فيه المرض أو الأنشوطة، فما أن يتهيأ له الارتواء، حتى تسقط الغشاوة وتنبجس العاطفة المناقضة: الاشمئزاز والكره والرغبة في الإبادة والسحق "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

34 " وهذه الرغبة في الفوضى إنما تنشأ - ربما في أكثر الأحيان - عن ظمأ خفي إلى النظام، إلى الجمال (إنني أستعمل كلمتك). إن الشباب طاهر نقي لمجرد أنه شباب. ولعل تلك الاندفاعات الجنونية المبكرة تشتمل على ذلك الظمأ إلى النظام وعلى ذلك البحث عن الحقيقة. فمن المذنب إذا كان بعض الشباب في عصرنا يرون هذه الحقيقة وهذا النظام في نظريات تبلغ من الحماقة والسخافة أن المرء يستغرب فعلا أن يؤمنوا بها! "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

35 " إن العصر الذهبي هو أمنية من أكثر الأماني استحالة على هذه الأرض، ولكنها على استحالتها رأينا بشرا يهبون لها حياتهم كلها، وقواهم كلها، وفي سبيلها مات أنبياء وقُتل أنبياء، وبدونها لا تريد الشعوب أن تعيش، ولا تستطيع حتى أن تموت! "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

36 " إن الإنسان المتفوق المثقف الذي يسعى وراء فكرة عليا، يدير ظهره للحياة اليومية أحيانا، ويصبح مضحكا، نزقا باردا، بل أقول بصراحة أنه يصبح غبيا، في الحياة العملية طبعا، بل يصبح آخر الأمر غبيا حتى في نظرياته "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

37 " Money equalizes all inequalities. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

38 " Am văzut nenumărați oameni cărora e destul să le torni o găleată de apă rece în cap, ca să-și renege nu numai faptele, dar și ideile, care sunt gata să râdă primii de ceea ce socoteau sfânt cu un ceas înainte! Și când te gândești cu câtă ușurință se leapădă de orice! "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

39 " Simplicity, cher enfant, is in reality the deepest cunning. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent

40 " Есть простодушие, которое доверяется всем и каждому, не подозревая насмешки. Такие люди всегда ограниченны, ибо готовы выложить из сердца все самое драгоценное пред первым встречным "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Adolescent