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No, I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it! Granted, granted that there is no flaw in all that reasoning, that all that I have concluded this last month is clear as day, true as arithmetic... . My God! Anyway I couldn't bring myself to it! I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it! Why, why then am I still ... ?
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I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine
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He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one of them considered himself worthy of this thing ...
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Se habla del fuego del infierno tomando la expresion en su sentido literal. No me atrevo a sondear este misterio, pero me parece que si hubiese verdaderas llamas, los condenados se regocijarian, pues el tormento fisico les haria olvidar, aunque solo fuera por un instante, la tortura moral, mucho mas horrible que la del cuerpo. Es imposible librarlos de este dolor, pues esta dentro de ellos, no fuera.
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We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers.
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And we may ask the scornful themselves: If our hope is a dream, when will you build up your edifice and order things justly by your intellect alone, without Christ? If they declare that it is they who are advancing towards unity, only the most simple-hearted among them believe it, so that one may positively marvel at such simplicity. Of a truth, they have more fantastic dreams than we. They aim at justice, but, denying Christ, they will end..
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Elbette insan bir makine degildir; iskenceci gorevi geregi dayak atar, ama arada bir onun da costugu olur. Ancak dayak atarken, cogu zaman kurbanindan kendi hincini cikardigi icin zevk duymaz. Amaci vuruslarindaki cevikligi, isinde ne kadar usta oldugunu gostererek arkadaslariyla seyircilerin takdirlerini kazanmaktir. Yani bu isi sanat askina yapar.
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With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
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Essentially, this is undoubtedly what had to happen. But Rome as a state retained too much of pagan civilization and wisdom--for example, the very aims and basic principles of the state. Whereas Christ's Church, having entered the state, no doubt could give up none of its own basic principles, of that rock on which it stood, and could pursue none but its own aims, once firmly established and shown to it by the Lord himself, among which was ..
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He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever man of the world of established position can hardly help taking himself rather seriously.
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If anything protects society even in our time, and even reforms the criminal himself and transforms him into a different person, again it is Christ's law alone, which manifests itself in the acknowledgement of one's own conscience.
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Go, then, and do not be afraid. Do not be upset with people, do not take offense at their wrongs. Forgive the dead man in your heart for all the harm he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you already belong to God ... With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will ..
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In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner. A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him. Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted 300 francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won. Yet he did not take up his winnings--he left them there on the table. Again the black turned up, and again he did not gather in what he had won; and when, in t..
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As far as I understand it, and it's impossible not to understand it, you yourself, at the beginning and then again, very eloquently -- albeit too theoretically -- have been developing a picture of a Russia covered with an endless network of knots. For their part, each of the active groups, by proselytizing and branching out ad infinitum, has the task, through systematic denunciatory propaganda of constantly undermining the authority of the ..
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The truly great are, in my view, always bound to feel a great sense of sadness during their time upon earth.
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How can I forgive his tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down together with her and plead for the pardon of all without discrimination.
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lyfydk kthyran 'n ttrdd l~ 'ns mthlhm, ftt`lm 'shy kthyr@ mzlt tjhlh fy hdhh lHy@..
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It's not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God's, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept. With one reservation: I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradictions will disappear like a pitiful mirage, a vile concoction of man's Euclidean mind, feeble and puny as an atom, and that ultimately, at the wo..
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I grieve for my little son, father, for my little son.
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w 'ml 'n l ynqlb mylh l~ l'fkr lsh`byW@, km yHth fy kthyr mn l'Hyn, l~ SwfyW@ DbbyW@ wGybyW@ jhl@ fy mjl l'khlq, wl~ t`Sb qwy '`m~ `l~ S`yd lsys@..
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Better that you enslave us, but feed us.
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wlnkn jmy`an khjwlyn `l~ dhk wHlw@ mthl krtshwf..
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A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continual..
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And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spreading all over the earth?
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There were rats in it, but Fyodor Pavlovich was not altogether angry with them:
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But he did love people; he lived all his life, it seemed, with complete faith in people, and yet no one ever considered him either naive or a simpleton. There was something in him that told one, that convinced one (and it was so all his life afterwards) that he did not want to be a judge of men, that he would not take judgment upon himself and would not condemn anyone for anything. It seemed, even, that he accepted everything without the le..
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Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children.
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Oh, we love to live among people and to inform these people at once of everything, even our most infernal and dangerous ideas; we like sharing with people, and, who knows why, we demand immediately, on the spot, that these people respond to us at once with the fullest sympathy, enter into all our cares and concerns, nod in agreement with us, and never cross our humor.
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When you're older, you will see yourself what significance age has upon convictions.
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Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all lo..
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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,
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There is a good deal of posturing here, of romantic frenzy, of wild Karamazovian unrestraint and sentimentality--yes, and also something else, gentlemen of the jury, something that cries out in the soul, that throbs incessantly in his mind, and poisons his heart unto death; this something is conscience, gentlemen of the jury, the judgment, the terrible pangs of conscience!
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Yes, I was kind, brave, and honest then.
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through the inscrutable decrees of Providence everything has its recompense, and a visible calamity sometimes brings with it a great, if invisible, profit.
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Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, SOMETIMES, not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous. And if so, if there can be such a case, the whole principle falls into dust. What do you think--are there such cases?
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Bir insani sevmek icin diger insanin kendisini gizlemesi gerekir, yuzunu gosterdiginde sevgi kaybolur.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It's your rich life," Alyosha said softly. "Why, is it better to be poor?" "Yes, it is."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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for the lawyers, who cared not about the moral aspect of the case, but only, so to speak, about its contemporary legal aspect.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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These sweet little buds are char-ming for a couple of years when they are young, even for three... and then, well, they spread out forever... producing in their husbands that sad in-dif-fer-ence, which so promotes the development of the woman question... if I understand that question correctly...
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if I do run away, even with money and a passport, and even to America, I still take heart from the thought that I will not be running to any joy or happiness, but truly to another penal servitude, maybe no better than this one! No better, Alexei, I tell you truly, no better! This America, devil take it, I hate it already! So Grusha will be with me, but look at her: is she an American woman? She's Russian, every little bone of her is Russian..
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It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I'll always come to see you, all my life," Alyosha answered firmly."
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For suffering, Rodion Romanovitch, is a great thing.
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