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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 ther..
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desire
expectations
impossible
insane
reality
thought
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The righteous man departs, but his light remains.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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11a38a6
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n m qd ybdw lk fy Tby`tk shr nm ySfyh wynqyh wyThrh mjrd sh`wrk bh
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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4e3b021
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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.
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happiness
life
misfortune
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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9d3147d
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Because I'll tell everything to you alone, because it's necessary, because you're necessary, because tomorrow I'll fall from the clouds, because tomorrow life will end and begin. Have you ever felt, have you ever dreamed that you were falling off a mountain into a deep pit? Well, I'm falling now, and not in a dream. And I'm not afraid, and don't you be afraid either. That is, I am afraid, but I'm delighted! That is, not delighted, but ecsta..
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d239cd8
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I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now -- a real child. Oh! you know nothing about it at all, I see." "And are you assured, at the same time, that you love Aglaya too?" "Yes -- yes -- oh; yes!" "How so? Do you want to make out that you love them BOTH?" "Yes -- yes -- both! I do!" "Excuse me, prince, but think what you are saying! Recollect yourself!" "Without Aglaya -- I -- I MUST see Aglaya! -- I shall die in m..
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innocence
love
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b962371
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When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept repeating to himself, again and again. 'It's like a dream, I've sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.' It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so were his underclothes, and now everyone could see it. And what was worse, he disliked his feet. All his lif..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rati..
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existentialism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b6ea0d6
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The impudence of Ignorance
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1549e17
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Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.
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inspirational
russian
sacrifice
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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4c84702
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chr bry ykh nfr dygr shkh myryzy? shkhhyt r nghdr bry wqt mtm khwdt, wqty tnh shdy! wqty tnhyy khwst dlt r bshkhnd w khsy r ndshty...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f860c25
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As soon as you have finished telling us anything, you seem to be ashamed of what you've said," Aglaia observed suddenly. "Why is that?"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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9db0f6c
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And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.
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brothers-karamazov
dostoevsky
graduation
russian-literature
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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a0961bb
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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
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dreams
emptiness
heart
hope
illusion
lifeless
pain
sadness
sensation
soulless
wounds
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4e3dbad
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ky yHb lnsn lakhr yjb 'n ykwn khfyan fn Zhr wjhh zlt lmHb@
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop with these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitrations.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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efa4966
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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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fyodor-dostoyevsky
notes-from-the-underground
sensations
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1b01183
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lmjd l yuT`m khbzan.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. I
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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m mn nsn ystHq 'n yltft lyh.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most monstrous pictures are put together but all the circumstances are so subtly interwoven the details so artistically harmonious in every minute respect as to defy human imitation. Such morbid dreams are always recollected for very long and produce strong impressions on the disordered and already excited..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very moment when you see with horror that despite all your efforts, you not only have not come nearer your goal but seem to have gotten farther from it, at that very moment--I predict this to you--you will suddenly reach your goal and will clearly behold over you the wonder-working power of the Lord, who all the while has be..
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Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
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god
life
mind
soul
theory
thought
universal
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams a..
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If the wickedness of people arouses indignation and insurmountable grief in you, to the point that you desire to revenge yourself upon the wicked, fear that feeling most of all; go at once and seek torments for yourself, as if you yourself were guilty of their wickedness. Take these torments upon yourself and suffer them, and your heart will be eased, and you will understand that you, too, are guilty, for you might have shone to the wicked,..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He who loves men, loves their joy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the actual crime itself. Judicial murder is immeasurably more horrible than one committed by a robber. Someone killed by a robber, knifed at night in forest or somewhere, certainly keeps hoping for a rescue right up to the last second. There have been instances of people whose throats have been cut still hoping for rescue right up to the last second. There have been instances of people..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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That day must come when men will understand that freedom and daily bread enough to satisfy all are unthinkable and can never be had together, as men will never be able to fairly divide the two among themselves. And they will also learn that they can never be free, for they are weak, vicious, miserable nonentities born wicked and rebellious.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that's just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That's what they regard as the highest point of progress.
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I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?
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notes-from-the-underground
philosophy
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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one must first learn to live oneself before one blames others
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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ln yshj`k rfqk latwn, wln ywswk. ln ydlwk `l~ m fyk mn `nSr lkhyr wlSdq. bl`ks.. syHSwn `lyk kl GlT@, wln yrw Gyr `ywbk, wln ybynw lk l m 'nt fyh mkhTy', syf`lwn dhlk wfy nfwshm frH khbyth. wdh tZhrw lk b'nhm l yHflwn b'mrk bl yzdrwn sh'nk, knw fy lHqyq@ yfrHwn lkl m tq` fyh mn 'khT (k'n lnsn m`Swm mn lkhT'!).
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solitude
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f014d32
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All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most... .
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crime-and-punishment
dostoevsky
dostoyevski
dostoyevsky
life
life-philosophy
life-quotes
russian-literature
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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fZl y`tqd- Ht~ lfZ 'nfsh l'khyr- n s`th lm tHn b`d w'n mjdh at l ryb
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Hm...yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most...But I am talking too much.
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fear
fear-of-change
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We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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m lkhwf `l~ kl Hl l thmr@ mn thmrt lkdhb
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of an unworthy father involuntarily suggests tormenting questions to a young creature, especially when he compares him with the excellent fathers of his companions. The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and b..
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nature
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