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So much have we lost touch with 'real life' that we occasionally feel a kind of disgust for it and so can't bear to be reminded of it. For we have arrived at the point where we look on 'real life' as toil, almost as compulsory service, and all of us privately agree that 'life' as we find it in book is better.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity of their activities, games, and conversations. They were so lacking in understanding of the most essential things, so devoid of interest in the most important, most remarkable matters, that I involuntarily began to look upon them as my inferiors.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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7d4d4bd
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The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6511261
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Not long ago I was much amused by imagining--what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the world--what a predicament my judges would be in, with my having only a fortnight to live, now that corporal punishment and torture is abolished. I should die comfortably in hospital, warm aad snug, with an attentive doctor, and very likely much m..
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capital-punishment
consumption
cruel-and-unusual-punishment
death-sentence
hippolyte
tuberculosis
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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5697881
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I was also afraid to the point of illness of being ridiculous, and therefore slavishly worshipped routine in everything to do with externals; I loved falling into the common rut, and feared any eccentricity in myself with all my soul. But how could I hold out? I was morbidly developed, as a man of our time ought to be developed. And they were all dull-witted and as like one another as a flock of sheep.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You thirst for life, yet you yourself resolve life's questions with a logical tangle. And how importunate, how impudent your escapades, yet at the same time how frightened you are! You talk nonsense, and are pleased with it; you say impudent things, yet you keep being afraid and asking forgiveness for them. You insist that you are not afraid of anything, and at the same time you court our opinion. You insist that you are gnashing your teeth..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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72dc803
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From an encounter in 1862... "Dickens told me," Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, "that all the good, simple people in his novels . . . are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love. . . . There were two peopl..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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He came softly, unobserved, and yet, strange to say, every one recognized Him. That might be one of the best passages in the poem. I mean, why they recognized Him. The people are irresistibly drawn to Him, they surround Him, they flock about Him, follow Him. He moves silently in their midst with a gentle smile of infinite compassion. The sun of love burns in His heart, light and power shine from His eyes, and their radiance, shed on the peo..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3d4c950
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In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.
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perfection
understanding-others
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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5e09f6a
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Ht~ l'Hlm yjb `lyh 'n tqwm llbq `l~ qyd lHy@.
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الحياة
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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41054e9
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I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.
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lying
truth
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b00c0f2
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He never did anything to me it's true, but I once played a most shameless nasty trick on him, and the moment I did it, I immediately hated him for it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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l'mr lmhm hw lHy@, lHy@ wHdh... lmhm hw lbHth lmtSl `n lHy@, hw ls`y l'bdy l~ lHy@, wlys ktshf lHy@!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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706a010
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In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rati..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6f7d6dd
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nny fy rwH tlk lmr'@ lty tnhD mn nwmh ltbky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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9f92cf5
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nsh`r b'lm lakhryn sh`wran '`mq Hyn nkwn 'shqy m`dhbyn
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law...and that's enough.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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21ffc82
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You have long needed a change of air. Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer! Maybe Nikolay is right in wanting to suffer. I know you don't believe in it--but don't be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid--the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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2d22027
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All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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73c8143
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His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him, is rocking, shifting, sways for a last time, and falls, drawing him into the abyss, and meanwhile the unfortunate man has neither the strength nor the firmness of spirit to jump back, to take his eyes from the yawning chasm; the abyss draws him, and he finally leaps into it himself, himself hastening the mome..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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a4a4050
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Her seyi fazlasiyla anlamak bir hastaliktir; gercek, tam manasiyla bir hastalik. Insana, gundelik hayatini surdurmesi icin gereken anlayisin yarisi, hatta dortte biri dahi, talihsiz on dokuzuncu yuzyil aydinimiza yeterdi.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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400085b
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Considered alone, the railways will not pollute the springs of life, but as a whole they are accursed. The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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436f8b8
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You see gentlemen, there are ideas . . . that is, you see, when some ideas are said out loud, put into words, they come out terribly stupid. They come out so that you're ashamed of yourself. But why? For no reason at all. Because we're all good-for-nothings and can't bear the truth, or I don't know why else.
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truth
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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402c1c0
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Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy.
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existential
kolya
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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8fc1dea
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La natura e uno specchio, e lo specchio piu trasparente che esista!
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specchio
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c86a2f7
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And how many ideas there have been on earth in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared! Yet when their destined hour had come, they came forth and spread over the whole earth. So it will be with us, and our people will shine forth in the world, and all men will say: "The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone of the building." --
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3357fd7
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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we here are unbelievers only out of carelessness, because we don't have time: first, we're too beset with business, and second, God gave us too little time, he only allotted twenty-four hours to a day, so that there isn't even time enough to sleep, let alone repent.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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697a662
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Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book--afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment. So dear to me is the formless dream of which I have spoken, so dear to me are the impressions which it has left behind it, that I fear to touch the vision with anything new, lest it should dissolve in smoke. But
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1d5bffc
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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed for God sets us nothing but riddles.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Al mundo espiritual, la mitad superior del genero humano, se le rechaza alegremente, incluso con odio. Sobre todo en estos ultimos anos, el mundo ha proclamado la libertad. ?Pero que significa esta libertad? La esclavitud y el suicidio. Pues se dice: 'Tienes necesidades: satisfacelas. Posees los mismos derechos que los grandes y los ricos. No temas satisfacer tus necesidades. Incluso las puedes aumentar'. Estas son las ensenanzas que se dan..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Meanwhile, genuine equality says: "What do I care if you are more talented than I, more clever, more handsome? I'm glad for it, rather, because I love you. But though I may be less important to you, I respect myself as a person; and you know this and respect me yourself, and I am happy with your respect. If you, through your abilities, can bring me and everyone else a hundredfold more benefit than I can bring you, then I bless you for it; I..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Alyosha exclaimed. "I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world." "Love life more than its meaning?" "Certainly, love it before logic, as you say, certainly before logic, and only then will I also understand its meaning."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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5e8281d
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Oh, nothing. God created light on the first day, and the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day. Where did the light come from on the first day?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of existence, was only created in Euclid's geometry; they even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity. I have come to the conclusion that, since I can't understand even that, I can't expe..
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god
the-limitedness-of-human-mind
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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04b481e
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b28e136
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Dieses reizende Wesen, diese Sanfte, dieser Himmel voller Seligkeit - war mein Tyrann, der unertragliche Marterer meiner Seele!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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a9313d6
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In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden--the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain, the demon of diseases that follow on vice, gout, kidney disease, and so on. "This"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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080b5e9
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Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
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russian
saint
soul
worship
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0b269fe
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Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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yjb 'n n`ln bGyr trdd 'nh lys ykfy lmr 'n ynsl nsl Ht~ ykwn 'b ' wnm ynbGy lh 'n ystHq shrf hdh lsm , 'n '`lm 'n hnk r'y mkhtlf `n hdh lr'y , 'n hnk fhm akhr lm`n~ klm@ l'b , hw 'n 'by yZl 'by wlw kn shyTn rjym wmjrm `ty fy Hq 'wldh wdhlk y sdty lmjrd 'nh 'wjdny !!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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a9650a9
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Am vazut nenumarati oameni carora e destul sa le torni o galeata de apa rece in cap, ca sa-si renege nu numai faptele, dar si ideile, care sunt gata sa rada primii de ceea ce socoteau sfant cu un ceas inainte! Si cand te gandesti cu cata usurinta se leapada de orice!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Pero no sabemos ser originales ni siquiera para equivocarnos. Un error original acaso valga mas que una verdad insignificante.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |