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But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (there is no saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and ..
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Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to do with any reasoning, or any crimes and misdemeanors or atheism; is is something entirely different and it will always be so; it is something our atheists will always overlook, and they will never talk about THAT. But the important thing is that you will notice it most clearly in a Russian heart, and that's the..
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the-idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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5fc2123
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Los verdaderos grandes hombres deben de experimentar, a mi entender, una gran tristeza en este mundo
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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89b507c
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You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice."
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prince-myshkin
the-idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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12ed234
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n fy lHy@ s`tun, k'nh ttjm` fyh alm snyn Twyl@ brmth
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الحياة
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b1c1bb9
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w'zddt wT'@ wHdty wSmty Ht~ 'SbHtu l 'jrw' `l~ 'n 'khrj mnh...
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الوحدة
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e262c91
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Already even then I had my underground world in my soul. I was fearfully afraid of being seen, of being met, of being recognized.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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7b434b8
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A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I wanted to find out then and quickly whether I was a louse like everybody else or a man. Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling creature or whether I have the right...F
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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409e70a
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Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature. - Yes; it's a funny habit. - No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, however funny it may seem to man. If dogs could reason and criticize us they'd be sure to find just as much that would be funny to them, if not far more, in the social relations of men, their masters -far more, I think. I am more convinced that ther..
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nature
society
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I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me -- and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter -- not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them. Sad becau..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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to a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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796255a
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Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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2b9639f
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Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and - I can't, and now there are these little details, these little details...
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falling-in-love
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f3656f8
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Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should have respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I should at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least have been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could have believed myself. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defi..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are ..
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forgiveness
mercy
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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75fe8cb
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My friend, the truth is always implausible.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3bc9312
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Life is, and death is not at all
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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rb 'dyb yslkh mn `mrh thlthyn `m fy lktb@, thm hw yjhl akhr l'mr lmdh ktb Twl hdhh lsnyn.
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fea1992
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I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you--answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was ..
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Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds. That is why philosophers say it is impossible on earth to conceive the essence of things. God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them on this earth, and raised up his garden; and everythi..
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Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.
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people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment
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I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I've asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't...
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karamazov-bothers
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That is my conviction of forty years. I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I t..
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Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the point of exasperation, yet I would not care to be in his place as he is now (though I will not stop envying him. No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous!) There, at any rate, one can-- bah! But after all, even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself as surely as two times two makes four, that it is not at all underground that is better, but something different, q..
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Frankly, if there ever was a time when I was really happy, it wasn't during those first intoxicating moments of my success, but long before that, when I hadn't yet read or shown my manuscript to anyone -- during those long nights of ecstatic hopes and dreams and passionate love of my work, when I had grown attached to my vision, to the characters I had created myself, as though they were my own offspring, as though they really existed -- an..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It's that a man falls in love with some beautiful thing, with a woman's body, or even with just one part of a woman's body (a sensualist will understand that), and is ready to give his own children for it, to sell his father and mother, Russia and his native land, and though he's honest, he'll go and steal; though he's meek, he'll kill; though he's faithful, he'll betray.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love vanishes.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.
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philosophy
self
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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4c8d215
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Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the world go to hell, or should I go without my tea now? I'll say let the world go to hell so long as I can have my tea whenever I want it.
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hell
tea
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I quite understand you. You mean that an innocent lie for the sake of a good joke is harmless, and does not offend the human heart. Some people lie, if you like to put it so, out of pure friendship, in order to amuse their fellows; but when a man makes use of extravagance in order to show his disrespect and to make clear how the intimacy bores him, it is time for a man of honour to break off the said intimacy., and to teach the offender his..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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n lshfq@ fy 'ymn hdhh yHZrh l`lm
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking? To be sure, I won't break through such a wall with my forehead if I really have not got strength to do it, but neither will I be reconciled with it simply because I have a stone wall here and have not got strength enough.
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notes-from-underground
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91857ee
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dr hmh jwm` w dr wqt pryshny trdyd w tzlzl y dr dwrn hy gdhr w tHwl hmyshh rdhly rngrng z `mq jm`h br my aynd. mnZwr mn an grwh bh STlH pyshtz w `lmdrn nyst khh dr hr jryny my khwshnd z dygrn jlwtr bshnd (w jz yn fkhry ndrnd) w hdfshn dr yn tlsh Glb bsyr Hmqnh st w dr `yn Hl khm w bysh m`yn.khyr,mnZwr mn rdhl by sr w pyy st khh dr hmh jwm` hstnd w fqT dr dwrn hy tHwl y ashwb w gdhr br my aynd w ashkhr my shwnd.ynh nh fqT hdfy ndrnd blkhh Ht..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c51f439
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lmsh`r lmrDy@ tkd tkwn dy'man khd`@.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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73411d2
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kn y`dhbh 'n ytSwr 'nh Gryb `n hdh klh. m hdhh lwlym@, m hdhh lHfl@ lty l nhy@ lh, wlty kn yHs 'nh mnjdhb lyh mndh l'zl, mndh Tfwlth, dwn 'n ystTy` lmshrk@ fyh qT. lshms tTl` mshrq@ fy kl SbH. wfy kl SbH yrtsm qws qzH fwq lshll. Ht~ dh Gbt lshms, lthbt bnr kl'rjwn, fy kl ms, `nd l'fq, ldhrw@ lmGT@ blthlj mn '`l~ jbl Hwl hdhh l'rDy. n kl "dhbb@ SGyr@ tdndn Hwlh fy sh`` mHrq mn shms, ftshrk fy jwq@ lTby`@ hdhh: nh t`rf mknh, wtHbh, why s`yd@ ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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622f8a6
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I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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'n lnsn lTby`y lHqyqy ynZr l~ ntqmh `l~ 'nh `dl wnq wbsT@, mdfw`an l~ dhlk bHmqh l'Syl, bynm l njd lf'r lmdrk lnfsh drkan Hdan yf`l dhlk, l'nh l yw'mn bwjwd dhr@ mn l`dl@ fy dhlk.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |