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White Nights QUOTES

White Nights QUOTES

21 " I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

22 " At last my heart was too full. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

23 " Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life! "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

24 " I create entire romances in my dreams. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

25 " Dear Nastenka, I know I describe splendidly, but, excuse me, I don't know how else to do it. At this moment, dear Nastenka, at this moment I am like the spirit of King Solomon when, after lying a thousand years under seven seals in his urn, those seven seals were at last taken off. At this moment, Nastenka, when we have met at last after such a long separation - for I have known you for ages, Nastenka, because I have been looking for some one for ages, and that is a sign that it was you I was looking for, and it was ordained that we should meet now - at this moment a thousand valves have opened in my head, and I must let myself flow in a river of words, or I shall choke. And so I beg you not to interrupt me, Nastenka, but listen humbly and obediently, or I will be silent. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

26 " Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else.... I tell you what, I can't help coming here to-morrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams. I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year. I shall certainly come here to-morrow, just here to this place, just at the same hour, and I shall be happy remembering today. This place is dear to me already. I have already two or three such places in Petersburg. I once shed tears over memories ... like you.... Who knows, perhaps you were weeping ten minutes ago over some memory.... But, forgive me, I have forgotten myself again; perhaps you have once been particularly happy here.... "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

27 " If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for she will be happy with you. I know, I am a woman myself, so you must believe me when I tell you so. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

28 " Sou um sonhador, mal conheço a vida real, e um momento como este é tão raro de ser conseguido por mim, que me seria absolutamente impossível não continuar a evocá-lo sempre em meus sonhos. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

29 " You are not capable of insulting, even in thought, her who so loved and so loves you. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

30 " But, my God, how could I have thought it? How could I have been so blind, when everything had been taken by another already, when nothing was mine; when, in fact, her very tenderness to me, her anxiety, her love ... yes, love for me, was nothing else but joy at the thought of seeing another man so soon, desire to include me, too, in her happiness?... "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

31 " Боже мой! Целая минута блаженства! Да разве этого мало хоть бы и на всю жизнь человеческую?.. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

32 " But no, no, I am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am right, for I cannot hurt you in any way, I cannot wound you! I was your friend, but I am still your friend, I have betrayed no trust. Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow — they don’t hurt anybody. They will dry, Nastenka. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

33 " ... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

34 " Um momento total de felicidade? Sim! E isto não é o bastante para inundar uma vida? "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

35 " When you were talking to me here, I couldn’t sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were jilted, because your love was slighted and disregarded, I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

36 " The dreamer—if you want an exact definition—is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort. For the most part he settles in some inaccessible corner, as though hiding from the light of day; once he slips into his corner, he grows to it like a snail, or, anyway, he is in that respect very much like that remarkable creature, which is an animal and a house both at once, and is called a tortoise. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

37 " Listen," she said taking my hand. "Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a girl who had come to you of herself, you would not have thrown into her face a shameless taunt at her weak foolish heart? You would have taken care of her? You would have realized that she was alone, that she did not know how to look after herself, that she could not guard herself from loving you, that it was not her fault, not her fault-that she had done nothing... "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

38 " one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living, tangible in one’s immaterial dreams! And is it delusion? "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

39 " Quando se ama, não dura muito o ressentimento. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights

40 " Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem. "

― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights