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“Words, words, words. Whereas one needs deeds!”

Action Discipline Conscience Constructive Pragmatism The Gambler Positive Faculty

Author:Dostoyevsky (Author)

“Yes, she's rather good-looking; I think she's good-looking. After all, she drives other men out of their mind. She's tall and svelte. Only she's very thin. I think you could tie her in a knot or bend her double.”

Good Looking Thin The Gambler

Book:The Gambler and A Nasty Business

Source: The Gambler and A Nasty Business

“Like his Russian contemporary Dostoevsky — who wrote his entire novel ‘The Gambler’ in three weeks to pay off desperate gambling debts — Mendeleev threw together his first table to meet a textbook publisher’s deadline.”

Dostoevsky Periodic Table The Gambler Mendeleev

Book:The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

“O da bütün bunları çok iyi biliyordu; benim için erişilmez oluşundan, ona dair tüm hayallerimin imkansızlığı düşüncesinden de muazzam bir keyif aldığına kalıbımı basarım; aksi takdirde onun gibi temkinli ve akıllı bir kadın bana karşı bu kadar samimi, açık davranır mıydı? Sanırım bu zamana dek bana bir antikçağ imparatoriçesinin yanında soyunabileceği, insan yerine koymadığı kölesi gibi davrandı. Evet, pek çok kez beni insan yerine bile koymadı.”

Dostoyevski The Gambler Kumarbaz

Book:Kumarbaz

Source: Kumarbaz

“jouer, c'est tenter le diable, c'est aussi tenter Dieu.”

Humor Phylosophy The Gambler

Author:Fyodor Dostoyevski