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The Gambler

Book by Fiódor Dostoyevski · 10 quotes · Apuestas, Dostoyevski, El Jugador

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“I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!”

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“Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;”

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“Sí, a veces la idea más delirante, la que parece más imposible, se le clava a uno en la cabeza con tal fuerza que acaba por juzgarla realizable... más aún, si esa idea va unida a un deseo fuerte y apasionado acaba uno por considerarla a veces como algo fatal, necesario, predestinado, como algo que es imposible que no sea, que no ocurra. Quizá haya en ello más: una cierta combinación de presentimientos, un cierto esfuerzo inhabitual de la voluntad, un autoenvenenamiento de la propia fantasía, o quizá otra cosa... no sé.”

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