Super Quotes #76 : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Prayer is an education.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it.

There is a remarkable picture called 'Contemplation.' It shows a forest in winter and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute solitude, stands a peasant in a torn kaftan and bark shoes. he stands, as it were, lost in thought. Yet he is not thinking: he is "contemplating."

If anyone touched him he would start and look bewildered. It's true he would come to himself immediately; but if he were asked what he had been thinking about, he would remember nothing. Yet probably he has hidden within himself, the impression which dominated him during that period of contemplation.

Those impressions are dear to him and he probably hoards them imperceptibly, and even unconsciously. How and why, of course, he does not know. He may suddenly, after hoarding impressions for many years, abandon everything and go off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage. Or he may suddenly set fire to his native village. Or he may do both.

يرغب فيها الانسان رغبة مدركة عامدة فيما يضره،

ولكني أكرر للمرة المائة أن هنالك حالة واحدة، واحدة فقط،

في أن يرغب لنفسه حتى حين يكون من الحماقة جد

وفيما هو الحماقة بعينها – لأنه، ببساطة، يريد أن يمتلك الحق

غير مفروض عليه

أن يرغب فيما هو معقول في حين أن ذلك .