Book: White Nights
Quotes of Book: White Nights
Can it be that he has only seen her in seductive visions, and that this passion has been nothing but a dream? Surely they must have spent years hand in hand together-alone the two of them, casting off all the world and each uniting his or her life with the other's? Surely when the hour of parting came she must have lain sobbing and grieving on his bosom, heedless of the tempest raging under the sullen sky, heedless of the wind which snatches and bears away the tears from her black eyelashes? Can all of that have been a dream-and that garden, dejected, forsaken, run wild, with its little moss-grown paths, solitary, gloomy, where they used to walk so happily together, where they hoped, grieved, loved, loved each other so long, "so long and so fondly? book-quoteA fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes we live, you and I, Nastenka, so torpidly, slowly, insipidly; in his eyes we are all so dissatisfied with our fate, so exhausted by our life"! And, truly, see how at first sight everything is cold, morose, as though ill-humoured among us. . . . Poor things! thinks our dreamer. And it is no wonder that he thinks it! Look at these magic phantasms, which so enchantingly, so whimsically, so carelessly and freely group before him in such a magic, animated picture, in which the most prominent figure in the foreground is of course himself, our dreamer, in his precious person. book-quoterealityromancedreams…Ëndërrimtari, po t'i bëjmë një përkufizim të hollësishëm, nuk është njeri, por, si me thënë, një krijesë e gjinisë së mesme. Gjallon të shumtën e kohës në ndonjë kënd të humbur, a thua se i fshihet edhe dritës së diellit dhe, me t'u mbyllur në shtëpinë e tij ngjitet pas saj si kërmilli pas guackës, ose së paku i ngjan shumë, në këtë drejtim, asaj kafshës interesante që është kafshë dhe shtëpi njëherësh dhe që quhet breshkë… book-quote
