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'l n ls`d l yTqwn wl yHtmlwn ! wlknny l 'stTy` 'n 'z`l
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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To this day it is as if I can still hear the back of her head hit the carpet.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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m 'n lan? Sfr! mdh 'stTy` 'n 'kwn Gdan? 'stTy` 'n 'Hyy mwty f'st'nf lHy@. 'stTy` 'n 'ktshf fy nfsy lnsn qbl 'n yDy`.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: "Mystery!"
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morality-without-religion
mystery
science
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.
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youth
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What's more, the awareness I have that no matter how ridiculous and humiliated I may seem, there lies within me that treasure of strength which will someday make them all change their opinion of me, this awareness - almost since the humiliated years of my childhood - then constituted the only source of my life, my light and my dignity, my weapon and my consolation, otherwise I might have killed myself while still a child.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!
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loneliness
unwanted
white-nights
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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So it is that when we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused...
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white-nights
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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 defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard"--why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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it seems to me that a man's character may be recognized by his mere laugh. If you know a man whose laugh inspires you with sympathy, be assured he is an honest man.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.
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man
science
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. II
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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we took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one positively ought (that is my idea).
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interests
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Todas las hormigas respetables comenzaron con el hormiguero y probablemente terminaran con el, lo que las honra por su aplicacion y su perseverancia. Pero el hombre es una criatura frivola e imprevisible y quiza, a la manera de un jugador de ajedrez, gusta solo del proceso de llegar a la meta, y no de la meta misma. ?Y quien sabe? (nadie puede saberlo de cierto), quiza la unica meta que en este mundo persigue el hombre consista unicamente e..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Perhaps it was because a terrible anguish had developed within my soul, occasioned by a circumstance which loomed infinitely larger than my own self: to be precise, it was the dawning conviction that in the world at large, . I had had a presentiment of this for a good long time, but complete conviction came swiftly during this last year. All of a sudden, I realized that it to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at a..
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dreams
existentialism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth," he added dreamily, not in the tone of the conversation."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And what aim in life is more important or sacred than a parental aim?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and who ought not to live?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The latter are to lose their individuality and turn into something like cattle, and with this unlimited obedience attain, through a series of regenerations, a primordial innocence, something like the primordial paradise, although they will have to work.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth, but no one saw these people anywhere; no one heard their words and voices.3
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Why is it that even the best of men always seem to hide something from other people and to keep something back? Why not say straight out what is in one's heart, when one knows that one is not speaking idly? As it is every one seems harsher than he really is, as though all were afraid of doing injustice to their feelings, by being too quick to express them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And what if, besides love, there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is already loathing, contempt, revulsion--what then?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live. All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Girls and boys, laughing and crying; for as they went home many of them found time to fight and make peace, to weep and play. I forgot my troubles in looking at them. And then, all those three years, I tried to understand why men should be for ever tormenting themselves.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He was one of those idealistic Russian beings who are suddenly struck by some powerful idea and immediately, then and there, seem to be crushed by it, even sometimes permanently. They are never equipped to deal with it, and instead come to believe in it passionately, and so their entire life from then on passes in its final throes, as it were, under the stone that has fallen upon them and already crushed them half to death.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But there are a few peculiar men among them who believe in God and are Christians, but at the same time are socialists. These are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He expressed unconditional agreement with the uselessness and absurdity of the word 'fatherland'; he agreed with the idea that religion was harmful;33 but he loudly and firmly asserted that boots were inferior to Pushkin,34
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid--simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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'nh `r `ly 'y nsn, l `ly bn w'byh fHsb, 'n ytHdth ly shkhS akhr `n `lqth bmr'@ , mhm tkn hdhh l`lqt Thr@ nqy@ ! bl klm knt hdhh l`lqt 'Thr w'nqy kn ktmnh 'wjb w'lzm. 'n lHdyth fy hdhh l'mwr `yb wlys fy hdh lmjl njy yfDy lyh lmr b'srrh ! fkyf dh lm ykn thm@ shy lbt@ ? hl yjwz lklm fy hdhh lHl@ ? hl yjwz ?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There are some people who interest us immediately, at first glance, before a word is exchanged.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick of them, peering into their faces. For some reason he felt drawn to talk with everyone.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Y ahora se que quien es dueno de su voluntad y posee una inteligencia poderosa consigue facilmente imponerse a los demas hombres; que el mas osado es el que mas razon tiene a los ojos ajenos; que quien desafia a los hombres y los desprecia conquista su respeto y llega a ser su legislador.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I was, of course, myself the chief sufferer, because I was fully conscious of the disgusting meanness of my spiteful stupidity, and yet at the same time I could not restrain myself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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the public generally can only ejaculate in amazement.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |