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Book: The Gambler
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book-afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment. So dear to me is the formless dream of which I have spoken, so dear to me are the impressions which it has left behind it, that I fear to touch the vision with anything new, lest it should dissolve in smoke. But
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
Человек любит видеть лучшего своего друга в унижении пред собою; на унижении основывается большею частью дружба; и это старая, известная всем умным людям истина.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
لعل نفس الإنسان ، بعد أن تعاني مثل هذا العدد الكبير من الإحساسات ، لا تنتهي إلى الشبع منها ، بل تهتاج وتطلب المزيد من إحساسات جديدة ما تنفك تعنف ثم تعنف ، إلى أن تصل إلى درجة الإنهاك.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
لعلني أتمنى أن أنفذ إلى أسرارها ، أن تجئ إلي فتقول"أنت تعلم أنني أحبك" ، وإلا فما الذي أرغب فيه ، إذا لم تكن هذه الفكرة الجنونية ممكنة التحقيق؟ هل أعرف ما الذي أرغب فيه؟ إنني كالذي فقد صوابه. إن كل ما أريد هو أن أبقى قريبا منها ، في الهالة التي تحيط بها ، في الإشعاع الذي يصدر عنها ، إلى الأبد ، مدى الحياة. لا أعرف أكثر من هذا .. هل أطيق أن أبتعد عنها؟
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
... ولكن اللذة مفيدة دائما ، والسلطة المطلقة التي لا حدود لها نوع من المتعة ، ولو كانت سلطة على ذبابة. الإنسان ظالم بطبيعته : إنه يحب التعذيب . وأنت تحبين هذا أكثر مما تحبين أي شئ آخر.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
أنا أعلم أنني حين أكون معك أحتاج إلى أن أتكلم ، أن أتكلم ، أن أتكلم ..... فأتكلم إنني حين أكون معك أفقد حب نفسي كله ، وليس يهمني هذا
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
It is a year and eight months since I last looked at these notes of mine. I do so now only because, being overwhelmed with depression, I wish to distract my mind by reading them through at random. I left them off at the point where I was just going to Homburg. My God, with what a light heart {comparatively speaking} did I write the concluding lines!-though it may be not so much with a light heart, as with a measure of self-confidence and unquenchable hope. At that time had I any doubts of myself? Yet behold me now. Scarcely a year and a half have passed, yet I am in a worse position than the meanest beggar. But what is a beggar? A fig for beggary! I have ruined myself-that is all. Nor is there anything with which I can compare myself; there is no moral which it would be of any use for you to read to me. At the present moment nothing could well be more incongruous than a moral. Oh, you self-satisfied persons who, in your unctuous pride, are forever ready to mouth your maxims-if only you knew how fully I myself comprehend the sordidness of my present state, you would not trouble to wag your tongues at me! What could you say to me that I do not already know? Well, wherein lies my difficulty? It lies in the fact that by a single turn of a roulette wheel everything for me, has become changed. Yet, had things befallen otherwise, these moralists would have been among the first {yes, I feel persuaded of it} to approach me with friendly jests and congratulations. Yes, they would never have turned from me as they are doing now! A fig for all of them! 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.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner. A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him. Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted 300 francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won. Yet he did not take up his winnings-he left them there on the table. Again the black turned up, and again he did not gather in what he had won; and when, in the third round, the RED turned up he lost, at a stroke, 1200 francs. Yet even then he rose with a smile, and thus preserved his reputation; yet I knew that his money bags must be chafing his heart, as well as that, had the stake been twice or thrice as much again, he would still have restrained himself from venting his disappointment.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
Vorrei penetrare il suo segreto, vorrei che lei venisse da me e mi dicesse: "Io ti amo", e se non è così, se questa follia non è pensabile, allora... allora che cosa desiderare? Forse so io stesso quel che desidero? Sono anch'io come sperduto: vorrei soltanto starle accanto, essere nella sua aura, nella sua luce, eternamente, per tutta la vita. Altro non so! Potrei forse allontanarmi da lei?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
ما أنا الآن؟ صفر! ماذا أستطيع أن أكون غداً؟ أستطيع أن أحيي موتي فأستأنف الحياة. أستطيع أن أكتشف في نفسي الإنسان قبل أن يضيع.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
وبدلا من أن أفكر في المستقبل ، أراني أحيا تحت تأثير ذكريات حديثة ، تحت تأثير كل تلك العاصفة التي ما تزال قريبة ، تلك العاصفة التي حملتني زوبعتها زمانا ثم ألقتني على الأرض. وما زلت أحس في بعض الحظات أن الزوبعة ستأخذ بي ، أن الصاعقة ستنطلق ، فيطبق جناحها عليّ أثناء عبورها ، وأنني وقد فقدت التوازن وطاش صوابي ، سآخذ أدور ، وأدور ، وأدور ...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gambler
Yes; even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to gentility as never to be worth a thought. Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob {for preference, through a lorgnette}, even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.
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