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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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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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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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cruel-and-unusual-punishment
hippolyte
tuberculosis
consumption
capital-punishment
death-sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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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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kolya
existential
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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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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 God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Consciousness, for example, is infinitely higher than two times two. After two times two there would, of course, be nothing left - not only to do, but even to learn. The only possible thing to do then would be to stop up our five senses and immerse ourselves in contemplation. Well, but with consciousness, though the result comes out the same - that is, again there's nothing to do - at least one can occasionally whip oneself, and, after all,..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Towards the end I myself could not stand it: as I grew older, a need for people, for friends, developed. I tried to start getting closer with some; but the attempt always came out unnaturally and would simply end of itself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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No hay un solo pueblo que haya organizado su vida segun los principios de la razon y la ciencia. No ha habido nunca un ejemplo de ello, o quiza solo durante un momento y eso por estupidez. El socialismo, por su indole misma, tiene que ser ateismo, puesto que proclama desde el primer momento que es una institucion atea y que trata de organizarse exclusivamente segun los principios de la ciencia y la razon. Ahora bien, en la vida de los puebl..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Consciousness, for instance, is infinitely superior to twice two makes four. Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle up your five senses and plunge into contemplation. While if you stick to consciousness, even though the same result is attained, you can at least flog yourself at times, and that will, at any rate, liven you up. Reactionary as it is, corporal ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me, and I was unlike any one else. "I am aline and they are every one," I thought--and pondered. For that it was evident that I was still a youngster."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me, and I was unlike any one else. "I am alone and they are every one," I thought--and pondered. For that it was evident that I was still a youngster."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I experienced, moreover, one form of suffering which is perhaps the sharpest, the most painful that can be experienced in a house of detention cut off from law and liberty. I mean forced association. Association with one's fellow men is to some extent forced everywhere and always; but nowhere is it so horrible as in a prison, where there are men with whom no one would consent to live.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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24f1655
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You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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7a0e549
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Absurdity of absurdities.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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8d48f21
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Beautiful and sublime.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I can but thank you," he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, "for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of their own, and immediately answer their opponents with abuse, if they do not have recourse to arguments of a still more unpleasant nature."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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l shy 'd`~ l~ nz`j lmr, mthlan, mn 'n ykwn Gnyan, wbn 'sr@ krym@, wHsn lhyy'@, w`l~ jnb mn thqf@ wGyr Gby, bl wTyban, wlknh l ymlk 'y@ mwhb@, wl ynfrd b'y@ sm@ shkhSy@, Ht~ wl b'y@ Sf@ mmyz@, w'n l ykwn lh 'y tfkyr khS, 'y ykwn shkhSy <> tmman:
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Life had stepped into the place of theory
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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my vse do komizma predobrye liudi...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed. But why is it contemptible? Can you imagine that I am ashamed of it all, and that it was stupider than anything in your life, gentlemen? And I can assure you that some of these fancies were by no means badly composed . . . . It did not all happen on the shores of Lake Como. And yet you are right -- i..
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self-loathing
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact. Even if he admits it, he admits it as a fact of nature till then unrecognised by him. Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the m..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, "My Lord and my God!" Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, "I do not believe till I see."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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lbd llnsn mn 'jl 'n tb`th nfsh b`th jdyd w'n trtf` b`d sqwT , lbd 'n yqT` lllh@ lqdym@ "'m l'rD" `hd l~ l'bd ! ..wlkn lS`wb@ hy hdhh : m `sny 'f`l mn 'jl 'n '`hd l'rD ? 'n l 'zr` l'rD , 'n l 'ftH jwf l'rD ? hl yjb 'n 'SbH flH 'w r`y SGyr ? nny 'syr fy llyl dwn 'n '`rf ''n 'GwS fy lwHl wl`r 'm 'n 'tqdm nHw lDy wlfrH ? dhlk b`ynh hw lbl ..'n kl shy' fy hdh l`lm lGz ! ..Hyn kn ytfq ly 'n 'GwS l~ lqrr@ mn hw@ ldn@ wl`hr (wlm 'kn 'f`l shyy' Gyr..
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