Fëdor Dostoevskij: Frasi in inglese

Fëdor Dostoevskij era scrittore e filosofo russo. Frasi in inglese.

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“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“But,' I [Dmitri Karamazov] asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book XI, ch. 4 (trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Delitto e castigo

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Writer's Diary, Volume 1: 1873-1876 (1994), p. 734 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=38xQHS4h0yEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-BR&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

“Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Yes — you, you alone must pay for everything because you turned up like this, because I'm a scoundrel, because I'm the nastiest, most ridiculous, pettiest, stupidest, and most envious worm of all those living on earth who're no better than me in any way, but who, the devil knows why, never get embarrassed, while all my life I have to endure insults from every louse — that's my fate. What do I care that you do not understand any of this?”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Memorie dal sottosuolo

Part 2, Chapter 9 (pages 108-109)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Delitto e castigo

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“If not reason, then the devil.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Delitto e castigo

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“For everyone strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realisation he ends by arriving at complete solitude. All mankind in our age have split up into units, they all keep apart, each in his own groove; each one holds aloof, hides himself and hides what he has, from the rest, and he ends by being repelled by others and repelling them. He heaps up riches by himself and thinks, ‘How strong I am now and how secure,’ and in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence. For he is accustomed to rely upon himself alone and to cut himself off from the whole; he has trained himself not to believe in the help of others, in men and in humanity, and only trembles for fear he should lose his money and the privileges that he has won for himself. Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Memorie dal sottosuolo

Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 20)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“Once it's been proved to you that you're descended from an ape, it's no use pulling a face; just accept it. Once they've proved to you that a single droplet of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow human beings and consequently that all so-called virtues and duties are nothing but ravings and prejudices, then accept that too, because there's nothing to be done.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Memorie dal sottosuolo

Part 1 Chapter 3 (page 14)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings — of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Origine: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V

“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As quoted in "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2 (April 1999), pp. 180

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro Delitto e castigo

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro The Idiot

Part 4, Chapter 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=WuAKAQAAMAAJ&q=&quot;It's+easier+for+a+Russian+to+become+an+atheist+than+for+anyone+else+in+the+world&quot;&pg=PA548#v=onepage <br class="br">The Idiot (1868–9)

“I consider you the most honest and truthful of men, more honest and truthful than anyone; and if they say that your mind... that is, that you're sometimes afflicted in your mind, it's unjust. I made up my mind about that, and disputed with others, because, though you really are mentally afflicted (you won't be angry with that, of course; I'm speaking from a higher point of view), yet the mind that matters is better in you than in any of them. It's something, in fact, they have never dreamed of. For there are two sorts of mind: one that matters, and one that doesn't matter.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky libro The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)