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“Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!"

“Forgive me my impatience; but I have been happy for a whole year in hope; am I to blame for being unable to endure a day of doubt now?”

“My dear Nastenka; I swear that if l am ever in a position to marry,(…) now you are the only one who could make me happy. When I come back, if you still love me, I swear that we will be happy. Now it is impossible, I am not able. If it is not within year it will certainly be some time; that is if you do not prefer any one else, for I cannot and dare not bind you by any sort of promise.”

“Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die and will fall like the yellow leaves from the trees... Oh, Nastenka! you know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing, absolutely nothing…for all that you have lost, all that, all was nothing, stupid, simple nullity, there has been nothing but dreams!"

“And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And again one asks oneself what has one done with one's years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing.”

“And one remembers that them one's dreams were sad, and though the past was no better one feelsas though it had somehow been better, and that life was more peaceful, that one was free from the black thoughts that haunt one now”

“Do you know even dreams do not come for nothing! Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past, and I often wander like a shadow, aimless, sad and dejected”

“if there is no other life one must build one up from thi fragments.”

“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life”

“Oh, may you be blessed, dear girl, for not having repulsed me at first, for enabling me to say fat for two evenings, at least, I have lived."

"I realise now, more than ever, that I have lost all my best years! And now I know it and feel it more painfully from recognising that God has sent me you, my good angel, to tell me that and show it. Now that I sit beside you and talk to you it is strange for me to think of the future, for in the future there is loneliness again; and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!“

“At this moment, Nastenka, when we have met at last after such a long separation— for I have known you for ages, Nastenka, because I have been looking for some one for ages”

“Why is it that when this absurd gentleman is visited by one of his few acquaintances (and he ends by getting rid of all his friends), why does this absurd person meet him with such embarrassment, changing countenance and overcome with confusion, as though he had only just committed some crime within its four walls.”

Why does the gentleman, suddenly hurriedly make off, snatching away his hand from the warm grip of his host, who was trying his utmost to show his regret and retrieve the lost position? Why does the friend chuckle as he goes out of the door, and swear never to come and see this queer creature again, though the queer creature is really a very good fellow and cannot refuse his imagination to comparing”

"You will see ... the only thing is, I don't know how I am goin to survive the next twenty-four hours."
"Sleep soundly. Good-night, and remember that I have trusted yor already.”
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"Surely ... surely you don't mean... that we shall never see each other again? ... Surely this is not to be the end?"
173

"Don't be vexed; I am only laughing at your being your own enemy, and if you had tried you would have succeeded, perhaps.”
172

“It seemed as though Petersburg threatened to become a wilderness, so that at last I felt ashamed, mortified and sad that I had nowhere to go for the holidays and no reason to go away.”
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“Penso que a natureza trabalha numa base tão esperançosa que nós acreditamos contra nós que as coisas serão como devem ser, não como nós deveríamos saber que elas serão.”

“Aí vimos que só havia um barco com destino ao mar Negro que partira com a maré. É o Czarina Catherine.”

“Fomos de algum modo cegos, cegos à maneira de homens, já que podemos olhar para trás e ver o que poderíamos ter visto ao olhar em frente se tivéssemos sido capazes de ver o que poderíamos ter visto!”

“Tinha ouvido dizer que os loucos têm uma força fora do comum, e como eu sabia que era um louco, pelo menos às vezes, decidi usar o meu poder.”

“Às vezes penso que devemos estar todos doidos e que iremos acordar sãos presos em coletes de forças.”

“É muito mau que não se possa confiar nos homens a não ser que sejam vigiados.”

“Tomei-a e estou à espera do sono, que permanece ausente. Espero não ter feito mal, pois à medida que o sono começa a brincar comigo, um novo receio me surge, que posso ter sido louca em me privar do poder de acordar. Posso querê-lo. Aqui vem o sono. Boa noite.”

“E no entanto é esta obliquidade de pensamento e memória que torna a doença mental um tão interessante objecto de estudo. Talvez eu adquira maior conhecimento com a loucura deste louco do que com o ensino dos mais sábios. Quem sabe?”

“Mais uma vez nos olhou fixamente. Senti a convicção crescente de que esta súbita mudança no seu método intelectual não era senão outra forma ou fase da sua loucura, e assim decidi deixá-lo continuar um pouco mais, sabendo por experiência, que, como todos os loucos, ele se traíria no fim.”

“se perdermos esta luta, com toda a certeza ele a vence. E então qual será o nosso fim? Falhar aqui, não significa apenas a vida e morte. É que nos tornaremos como ele. Seremos seres malvados da noite, sem coração ou consciência, e as nossas vítimas serão quem mais amámos. Para nós ficarão eternamente fechados os portões do paraíso, pois quem no-los abrirá outra vez? Seremos eternamente odiados.“

“Só uma mulher pode ajudar um homem quando o coração dele sofre.”

“Suponho que existe algo na natureza feminina que faz um homem sentir-se livre de exteriorizar os seus sentimentos, de ternura ou emocionais, sem sentir que isso seja aviltante para a sua masculinidade.”