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Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Gambler

  • b6202049305цитує3 роки тому
    What am I? I am zero—nothing. What shall I be tomorrow? I may be risen from the dead, and have begun life anew. For still, I may discover the man in myself, if only my manhood has not become utterly shattered.
  • Rachel Rachelцитує2 місяці тому
    I suppose you would like to take them to the Casino to play roulette? Well, excuse my speaking so plainly, but I know how addicted you are to gambling. Though I am not your mentor, nor wish to be, at least I have a right to require that you shall not actually compromise me."
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    All women are like that. Even the proudest of them become abject slaves where marriage is concerned.
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    As he passed I looked at him, and the thought occurred to me that he was a man lost for ever.
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    if necessity drives, one enters into relation with people whom one simply detests.
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    You have lost your temper now, and are beginning to play the fool!
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    "one cannot arrest a man for brawling until he has brawled.
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    "I have perpetrated the—the piece of idiocy," I said as I came level with her.
    "Have you? Then you can take the consequences,"
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    I am not quite sure what was the matter with me—whether I was merely stupefied or whether I purposely broke loose and ran amok. At times my mind seems all confused; while at other times I seem almost to be back in my childhood, at the school desk, and to have done the deed simply out of mischief.
  • rebeklyцитує4 місяці тому
    know well that you must have used the words 'of no use' in order to crush me. I can see through you. 'Of no use,' did you say? Why, to give pleasure is ALWAYS of use; and, as for barbarous, unlimited power—even if it be only over a fly—why, it is a kind of luxury. Man is a despot by nature, and loves to torture. You, in particular, love to do so."
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