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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
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memories
fyodor-dostoyevsky
white-nights
dreamer
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I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
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illness
reason
notes-from-the-underground
fyodor-dostoyevsky
disease
intellect
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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.
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notes-from-the-underground
fyodor-dostoyevsky
slave
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The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.
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belittle
notes-from-underground
fyodor-dostoyevsky
ego
judgemental
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The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
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notes-from-the-underground
sensations
fyodor-dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Science and reason have, from the beginning of time, played a secondary and subordinate part in the life of nations; so it will be till the end of time. Nations are built up and moved by another force which sways and dominates them, the origin of which is unknown and inexplicable: that force is the force of an insatiable desire to go on to the end, though at the same time it denies that end. It is the force of the persistent assertion of one's own existence, and a denial of death. It's the spirit of life, as the Scriptures call it, 'the river of living water,' the drying up of which is threatened in the Apocalypse. It's the aesthetic principle, as the philosophers call it, the ethical principle with which they identify it, 'the seeking for God,' as I call it more simply. The object of every national movement, in every people and at every period of its existence is only the seeking for its god, who must be its own god, and the faith in Him as the only true one. God is the synthetic personality of the whole people, taken from its beginning to its end. It has never happened that all, or even many, peoples have had one common god, but each has always had its own. It's a sign of the decay of nations when they begin to have gods in common. When gods begin to be common to several nations the gods are dying and the faith in them, together with the nations themselves. The stronger a people the more individual their God. There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil. Every people has its own conception of good and evil, and its own good and evil. When the same conceptions of good and evil become prevalent in several nations, then these nations are dying, and then the very distinction between good and evil is beginning to disappear. Reason has never had the power to define good and evil, or even to distinguish between good and evil, even approximately; on the contrary, it has always mixed them up in a disgraceful and pitiful way; science has even given the solution by the fist. This is particularly characteristic of the half-truths of science, the most terrible scourge of humanity, unknown till this century, and worse than plague, famine, or war. A half-truth is a despot... such as has never been in the world before. A despot that has its priests and its slaves, a despot to whom all do homage with love and superstition hitherto inconceivable, before which science itself trembles and cringes in a shameful way.
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the-possessed
fyodor-dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness of the process of achievement alone, that is to say, in life itself, and not essentially in the goal, which, of course, is bound to be nothing other than two times two is four--that is, a formula; and two times two is four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
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life
notes-from-underground
fyodor-dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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"Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.'
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suicide
death
god
russian-lit
fyodor-dostoyevsky
russian-literature
dostoyevsky
russian
demons
russia
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Natasa'nin belki babasindan gecmis, butun iyi kalpli insanlara has bir ozelligi vardi: Karsisindakini oldugundan iyi gorur, daha ilk bakistan buyuk bir heyecanla meziyetlerini buyuturdu. Bu cesit insanlarin hayal kirikligina, hele sebebin kendileri oldugunu bilerek ugramalari pek aci olur. Ne diye kendilerine verilebilecekten fazlasini umarlar sanki? Boyleleri, her an hayal kirikligi tehlikesiyle karsilasmaktansa, koselerine cekilip dunyayla baglantiyi kesmeli en iyisi. Dikkat ettim, koseleri oyle severler ki, zamanla busbutun yabanilesirler.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |