The Double Quotes

“Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double

“The various aspects of illusion described so far refer to a single function, a single structure, a single failure. The function is to protect from the real; the structure does not involve refusing to perceive the real but, rather, splitting it in two; the failure lies in recognizing the protective double too late as the very reality from which one thought one had found protection. This is the curse of evasion: by way of a phantasmatic duplication, it sends us back to the undesirable starting point, the real. We can see now why evasion is always a mistake: it is always inoperative, because the real is always right. We may, admittedly, try to protect ourselves from a future event, if that happens to be possible; we shall never protect ourselves from a past or present event or one that is 'certain to come to pass,' as in the oracular symbolics which announces in advance an ineluctable necessity that already has all the characteristics of a present necessity. And the act by which one attempts to slough off that necessity will never be able to 'do any better' than literally reproduce the feared even or, even more exactly, constitute that event. This is what happens to Oedipus, as it happens to everyone at odds with himself - that is to say, to everyone at some point or other of his existence.”
― Clément Rosset, Le réel et son double

“La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double

“Soy un observador, un extraño, y nada más. No soy responsable de nada de lo que pase. ¡Eso es! Así será de ahora en adelante.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double

“Si se falla la primera vez, hacer de tripas corazón y si se tiene éxito, perseverar”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky , The Double

“And he'll supplant a man, supplant him - take his place as if he was nothing but an old rag, and never stop to think that a man's not an old rag. Oh lord, oh dear! What a misfortune...!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double