Patrick

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“هكذا بهذه الأسئلة إنما كان راسكولنيكوف يعذب نفسه، فكان الإهتياج الذي يحسه من ذلك يستحيل إلى نوع من التلذذ. على ان هذه الأسئلة ليس فيها شيء غير متوقع. إنها غير جديدة عليه، بل هي قديمة جدا. وهي تعذبه منذ زمن طويل. نعم لقد كانت هذه الأسئلة تعذبه وترهقه وتمزق قلبه منذ زمن طويل. لقد كان هذا القلق يشب في نفسه وينمو ويتراكم منذ زمن طويل.. ونضج هذا القلق في الآونة الأخيرة، وتركز وتكثف، فإذا هو يتخذ صورة سؤال رهيب، سؤال وحشي عجيب مسعور، يضني قلبه وفكره، ويطلب جوابا لا سبيل إلى تحاشيه.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, الجريمة والعقاب 1

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky