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It's true that he would come to himself at once, and yet, if he were asked what he had been thinking about while standing there, he would most likely not remember, but would most likely keep hidden away in himself the impression he had been under while contemplating. These impressions are dear to him, and he is most likely storing them up imperceptibly and even without realizing it--why and what for, of course, he does not know either; perh..
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on a good path, and try not to leave it. 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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Erkel's fate will be lightened. From the moment of his arrest he either maintained silence or did his best to pervert the truth. Not one word of repentance has been extracted from him so far. And yet even in the most severe judges he has awakened a certain sympathy for himself
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mdh 'qwl? n jmy` lns yf`lwn dhlk. n lns yzdhwn b'mrDhm; w'n 'zdhy b'mrDy 'kthr mn 'y nsn akhr, '`trf bdhlk. `l~ 'nny mqtn` qtn` jzm b'n zyd@ lw`y lys wHdh mrD, bl bn kl w`y mrD
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l~ kl Hl , mhw lshy ldhy yjd lmr fy lHdyth `nh kbr mt`@? ljwb : n ytHdth `n nfsh .Hsnan s'tHdth dhn `n nfsy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Absurdity of absurdities.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Beautiful and sublime.
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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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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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my vse do komizma predobrye liudi...
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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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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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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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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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He was one of those idealistic beings common in Russia, who are suddenly struck by some overmastering idea which seems, as it were, to crush them at once, and sometimes for ever. They are never equal to coping with it, but put passionate faith in it, and their whole life passes afterwards, as it were, in the last agonies under the weight of the stone that has fallen upon them and half crushed them. In
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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And
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I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me -- and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter -- not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But it's a misfortune to be broad without a special genius.
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I was always conscious of that weak point of mine, and sometimes very much afraid of it. "I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong."
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There's the Holy Ghost and there's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can appear as other birds- sometimes as a swallow, sometimes a goldfinch and sometimes as a blue-tit." "How do you know him from an ordinary tit?" "He speaks." "How does he speak, in what language?" "Human language." "And what does he tell you?" "Why, to-day he told me that a fool would visit me and would ask me unseemly questions. You"
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People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Yes, one day perhaps the leading intellects of Russia and of Europe will study the psychology of Russian crime, for the subject is worth it. But
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It is true, perhaps, that this instrument which had stood the test of a thousand years for the moral regeneration of a man from slavery to freedom and to moral perfectibility may be a two-edged weapon and it may lead some not to humility and complete self-control but to the most Satanic pride, that is, to bondage and not to freedom. The
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Why is it--as I've noticed," Stepan Trofimovitch whispered to me once, "why is it that all these desperate socialists and communists are at the same time such incredible skinflints, so avaricious, so keen over property, and, in fact, the more socialistic, the more extreme they are, the keener they are over property... why is it? Can that, too, come from sentimentalism?" I"
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n lqsw@ lty 'qtrfh `mdan lm tSdr `n qlby bl Sdrt `n r'sy lkhbyth lmryD.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Grigory decided then, once for all, that "the woman's talking nonsense, for every woman is dishonest,"
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At once I drink to the health of the artist who painted the picture worthy of Gay, because I love all that is "sublime and beautiful." --
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Don't quarrel with your bread and butter." "They"
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Good God! Can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open ... that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood ... with the axe ... Good God, can it be?
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power-of-will
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Fyodor Pavlovich learned of his wife's death when he was drunk; it was said that he ran out into the street with his hands raised to heaven in joy, shouting: 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant...';* others say he wept convulsively like a child, so much so that, despite all the revulsion he aroused, he was pitiful to behold. Very probably, both accounts are true--that is, he rejoiced in his liberation and shed tears for his liberator at one..
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that men won't change and that nobody can alter it and that it's not worth wasting effort over it. Yes, that's so. That's the law of their nature, Sonia,... that's so!... And I know now, Sonia, that whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them. Anyone who is greatly daring is right in their eyes. He who despises most things will be a lawgiver among them and he who dares most of all will be most in the right! So it has been..
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Je voulais vous exposer mon livre aussi succinctement que possible; mais je vois qu'il me faudra y joindre encore quantite d'explications verbales. Mon expose exigera donc au moins dix soirees d'apres le nombre de chapitres de mon livre. (Il y eut quelques rires.) De plus, je dois vous prevenir que mon systeme n'est pas completement acheve. (Nouveaux rires.) Je me suis embrouille dans mes propres donnees et ma conclusion se trouve en contra..
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despotism
les-démons
liberty
philosophy
russia
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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed--often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law--were
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