Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful.
Dear friends, don’t be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!
For men are made for happiness, and any one 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.
Words are not deeds.
If they knew that they are happy, they would be happy.
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention – and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom...
Clearly, he now had not to be anguished, not to suffer passively, by mere reasoning about unresolvable questions, but to do something without fail, at once, quickly.
Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his “cowardice.
A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred.
Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now?
There is a great and unresolved thought in him. He’s one of those who don’t need millions, but need to resolve their thought.
You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don’t insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse!
While analyzing some already-existing opinions on the subject, he also expressed his own view. The main thing was the tone of the article and its remarkably unexpected conclusion.
Certainly we shall rise, certainly we shall see and gladly, joyfully tell one another all that has been.
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting.
Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.
It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
There’s nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.