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And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me!"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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though all my friends there are drunk, yet they are all honest, and though we do talk a lot of trash, and I do, too, yet we shall talk our way to the truth at last, for we are on the right path,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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593b27a
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The game's not worth the candle
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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98fba89
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Sunt destul de cultivat ca sa nu fiu superstitios, insa sunt superstitios.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What they have is science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. The spiritual world, on the other hand, the loftier half of the man's being, is rejected altogether, cast out with a certain triumph, hatred even. The world has proclaimed freedom of theirs: nothing but servitude and suicide! For the world says: 'You have needs, so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the wealthiest and most highly placed of men. Do..
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What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
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man
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a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, l..
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desire-to-live
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b890fa6
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When reason fails, the devil helps!" he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children. When
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Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.
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grumblers
principles
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there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it! Or to speak with a man and not be happy in loving him? Oh, it's just that I can't express it - and yet there are so man..
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life
love
meaning-in-life
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In general, despre sentimentele mele fata de o femeie sau alta eu nu ma simt capabil sa-i vorbesc unei a treia persoane, si nimanui, oricine ar fi, afara de acea femeie. Te rog sa ma ierti, dar e o ciudatenie a firii mele.
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El verdadero "gentleman" no debe denotar emocion aunque pierda toda su fortuna. Debe hacer poco caso del dinero, como si fuese cosa que no mereciera la pena de fijar atencion en el."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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ab25410
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Cuando fracasan, incluso los mejores proyectos parecen estupidos.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. Bu..
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He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and not simply for the sake of instructing them, but as though thirsting to share with all men and all creation his joy and ecstasy, and once more in his life to open up his whole heart.
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If anything is wrong with your nose, they send you to Paris: there, they say, is a European specialist who cures noses. If you go to Paris, he'll look at your nose; I can only cure your right nostril, he'll tell you, for I don't cure the left nostril, that's not my speciality, but go to Vienna, there there's a specialist who will cure your left nostril.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I have sometimes thought that if ever I return home, I shall get more grief than joy from my impressions there. I have not lived your life, and much in it is unknown to me, and indeed, no one can really know exactly his fellow-mortal's life; still, human feeling is common to us all, and it seems to me that everyone who has been banished must live all his past grief over again in consciousness and memory, on his return home. It is like a bal..
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But the greatness of it lies just in the fact that it is a mystery--that the passing earthly show and the eternal verity are brought together in it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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57244af
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Bitter is the ascent of Golgotha...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction 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 world's finale, in that moment of eternal harmony, there will occur and be revealed something so precious that it will suffice for all hearts, to allay all indignation,..
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But what made me furious was that I knew for certain that I should go, that I should make a point of going; and the more tactless, the more unseemly my going would be, the more certainly I would go.
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A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes fee..
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Don't be too anxious on my account. I have but one wish--to be in good health; the tedium is a passing matter, and cheerfulness depends in the last resort upon myself. Human beings have an incredible amount of endurance and will to live; I should never have expected to find so much in myself; now I know it from experience. Farewell! I hope that these few lines will give you much pleasure. Greet every one you see whom I have known--forget no..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You have revealed me to myself. You have seen through me and explained me to myself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I think everyone should love life above everything in the world." "Love life more than the meaning of it?" "Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straight forward.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards and the Hussars, and fine ladies; at those moments I felt a spasmodic pain in my heart and hot flushes down my spine at the thought of the wretched inadequacy of my costume and the mean vulgarity of my small figure darting about.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Such a stupid excuse was even more degrading! In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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An officer put me in my place from the first moment. I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk....
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I owe them nothing now, and owe no one anything for ever. They are wicked and I will be wicked. They are cruel and I will be cruel.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomor..
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life-lessons
love
death-of-a-loved-one
regret
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Of course, I hated my fellow clerks one and all, and I despised them all, yet at the same time I was, as it were, afraid of them. In fact, it happened at times that I thought more highly of them than of myself. It somehow happened quite suddenly that I alternated between despising them and thinking them superior to myself. A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Reason is passion's slave, is it not?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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56c9912
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He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Kurios men pseudesthe ston eauto sas. Autos pou leei psemata ston eauto tou phtanei sto telos na men xekhorizei ten aletheia oute mesa oute guro tou. Etsi khanei ton autosebasmo tou alla kai ton sebasmo ton allon. Kai kathos den sebetai pleon kanena, stamata na agapa..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is expected to exercise an extraordinary and serious influence in the progress of society, in the end betrays such shallowness and insipidity of his fundamental idea that no one is sorry when he succeeds in writing himself out too soon.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is like my old Inquisitor, who himself ate roots in the desert and raved, overcoming his flesh, in order to make himself free and perfect, but who still loved mankind all his life, and suddenly opened his eyes and he saw that there is no great moral blessedness in achieving perfection of the will only to become convinced, a..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.
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shoutout
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