Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories Quotes

“أقسم أيها السادة أن شدة الإدارك مرض – مرض حقيقي
خطير”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories

“أنني متعلق بالخرافات إلى الحد الذي يجعلني أحترم العقاقير”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories

“ترى ما هو الذي يستطيع أن يتحدث به الإنسان السوي ويحس بأعظم المتعة؟
الجواب: أن يتحدث عن نفسه”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories

“Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud - there was nothing between. That was my ruin, for when I was in the mud I comforted myself with the thought that at other times I was a hero, and the hero was a cloak for the mud: for an ordinary man it was shameful to defile himself, but a hero was too lofty to be utterly defiled, and so he might defile himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories

“I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories