Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.
Recalling it afterwards, that moment stood out in his mind vividly, distinctly, for ever; he could not make out how he had had such cunning, for hus mind was as it were clouded at moments and he was almost unconscious of his body... An instant later he heard the latch unfastened.
There have been many great nations with great histories, but the more highly they were developed the more unhappy they were, for they felt more acutely than other people the craving for world-wide union.
But their childish delight will end; it will cost them dear. But they will see at last, the foolish children, that, though they are rebels, they are impotent rebels, unable to keep their own rebellion.
He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him. He had given up attending to matters of practical importance; he had lost all desire to do so.
Does the fellow want his head smashed?
I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should feel appeased.
When he heard about the bench, his heart began to beat horribly. A moment later he pulled himself together and, with shame, drove away the absurd thought.
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom.
I can but thank you,” he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, “for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of their own, and immediately answer their opponents with abuse, if they do not have recourse to arguments of a still more unpleasant nature.
And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself?
This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
Nah, bagaimana keadaanmu, anak burungku yang lemah dan belum bisa terbang, bagaimana kamu akan mencari makan, menjaga agar tidak hancur, membela dirimu terhadap para penjahat? Ayolah, Varenka, sadarlah; jangan dengar nasihat-nasihat bodoh dan fitnahan-fitnahan, tetapi bacalah bukumu kembali; itu akan bermanfaat bagimu.
As they became wicked they began talking of brotherhood and humanitarianism, and understood those ideas.
There is among the people a silent, long-suffering grief; it withdraws into itself and is silent.
Our choice is usually mistaken from a false view of our advantage. We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.
The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the keys to Russia’s future, sucked up to them shamelessly, mainly because they paid absolutely no attention to him.
Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.
Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them. The.
At times, with an intense, acute pang I was stabbed to the heart by the thought that ten years, twenty years, forty years would pass, and that even in forty years I would remember with loathing and humiliation those filthiest, most ludicrous, and most awful moments of my life.