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I do not wish to believe and I cannot believe that evil is the normal state of humanity.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I, for instance, have a great deal of AMOUR PROPRE. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It's remarkable, in fact, that the majority, indeed, of these benefactors and leaders of humanity were guilty of terrible carnage. In short, I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some new word, must from their very nature be criminals--more or less, of course. Otherwise it's hard for them to get out of the common rut; and to remain in the common rut is what they can't submit t..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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As soon as Russians feel the ground under their feet and are confident that they have reached firm ground, they are so delighted at reaching it that they rush at once to the furthest limit. Why is that? You are surprised at Pavlishtchev, and you put it down to madness on his part, or to simplicity. But it's not that! And Russian intensity in such cases is a surprise not to us only but to all Europe. If one of us turns Catholic, he is bound ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It does happen sometimes that a person commits a villainy and praises himself for it, elevating his villainy to the level of a principle, and claiming that and the light of civilization are precisely expressed in that abomination; the unfortunate one ends by believing this sincerely, blindly and honestly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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This life you cry up so much is what I wanted to extinguish by suicide, whereas my dream, my dream--oh, it has revealed to me a great, new, regenerated intensity of life!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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 looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I mean to go on in my sins to the end, let me tell you. For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Upon my word," cried my adversary, annoyed, "if you did not want to fight, why did not you let me alone?" "Yesterday I was a fool, to-day I know better," I answered him gayly. "As to yesterday, I believe you, but as for to-day, it is difficult to agree with your opinion,"said he. "Bravo," I cried, clapping my hands. "I agree with you there too. I have deserved it!"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Don't be afraid of life. How good life is when one does somethings good and just.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can ... Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but whi..
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Love one another, Fathers," said Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. "Love God's people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we are no holier than those that are outside, but on the contrary, from the very fact of coming here, each of us has confessed to himself that he is worse than others, than all men on earth... And the longer the monk lives in his seclusion, the more keenly he must ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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congratulated or "saved"?"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Brother, let me ask one thing more: has any man a right to look at other men and decide which is worthy to live?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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which traditionally aspires to advance virtue by laying vice bare.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The exposure of the conspiracy, the thanks from Petersburg, a career in the future, the influence of 'kindness' on the young people to keep them from falling into the abyss -- all this coexisted in complete harmony in her fantastic head.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Don't they understand that in order to acquire an opinion what is needed first of all is labor, one's own labor, one's own initiative and experience! Nothing can ever be acquired gratis. If
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I understand only too well why Russians with means have all made tracks abroad... If the ship is about to sink, the rats are the first to desert it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Let life go hang, as long as these loved ones of ours are happy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Hate not the atheists, the teachers of evil, the materialists- and I mean not only the good ones- for there are many good ones among them, especially in our day- hate not even the wicked ones.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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that's precisely what my novel is about. It's called Demons, and it's a description of how these demons entered the herd of swine.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Evidently it's true that the entire second half of a man's life is usually composed solely of the habits accumulated during the first half.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Upon my word," cried my adversary, annoyed, "if you did not want to fight, why did not you let me alone?" "Yesterday I was a fool, to-day I know better," I answered him gayly. "As to yesterday, I believe you, but as for to-day, it is difficult to agree with your opinion,"said he."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The complete atheist stands on the next-to-last highest rung leading to the fullest and most complete faith (he may take that step, or he may not), but the indifferent man has no faith at all, except an ugly fear.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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en verite il est tres agreable de se reunir, de s'asseoir et de bavarder des interets publics. Parfois meme je suis pret a chanter de joie, quand je rentre dans la societe et vois des hommes solides, serieux, tres bien eleves, qui se sont reunis, parlent de quelque chose sans rien perdre de leur dignite. De quoi parlent-ils ? ca c'est une autre question. J'oublie meme, parfois, de penetrer le sens de la conversation, me contentant du tablea..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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soy susceptible de caer en una tentacion, de enamorarme, pues esto no depende de nuestra voluntad.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Where is it that I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only got room to stand, with the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live like that than to die at once! O..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Perezca yo con tal que mis seres queridos sean felices.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Mutsuzluk bulasici bir hastaliktir. Zavalli ve mutsuz insanlar daha kotu olmamak icin birbirlerinden uzak durmalidirlar.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Chelovek liubit videt' luchshego svoego druga v unizhenii pred soboiu; na unizhenii osnovyvaetsia bol'sheiu chast'iu druzhba; i eto staraia, izvestnaia vsem umnym liudiam istina.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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This idea is a great idea, and a Christian idea could not have found fuller expression. Repentance can go no further than the astonishing heroic deed that you have contemplated, if only...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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as if you're admiring your own psychology and are grasping at every tiny detail, in order to astonish the reader with your insensitivity which is not a part of you. What is this if not the proud challenge of a guilty man to his judge?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I have mentioned already, by the way, that though he lost his mother in his fourth year he remembered her all his life--her face, her caresses, "as though she stood living before me." Such memories may persist, as every one knows, from an even earlier age, even from two years old, but scarcely standing out through a whole lifetime like spots of light out of darkness, like a corner torn out of a huge picture, which has all faded and disappea..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish--such sacrifice is quite often almost beyond the streng..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But we realize precisely that if there is no legal right here, there's a human right, a natural one; the right of common sense and the voice of conscience, and even though this right of ours is not written down in any rotten human code of law, a decent and honest man, a right-thinking man, that's to say, is obliged to remain a decent and honest man even on those points that aren't written down in the law books.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I suppose that's a Slavophile idea.' 'No: today's Slavophiles would disown it. These days the people have grown more intelligent. But you went even further: you believed that Roman Catholicism was no longer Christianity. You asserted that Rome was preaching a Christ who had succumbed to the third temptation of the Devil, and that by proclaiming to the entire world that Christ without an earthly kingdom cannot prevail on earth, Catholicism w..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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24. you would rather remain with Christ than with the truth: The same sentiments are expressed in Dostoyevsky's letter of late January-February 1854 to Natalya Fonvizina (1805-69), wife of the Decembrist Ivan Fonvizin, who followed her husband into exile. She visited Dostoyevsky and other members of the Petrashevsky Circle in the transit prison in Tobolsk, an act of kindness he remembered ever afterwards. Dostoyevsky wrote: 'That credo is v..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Look, gentlemen, look at how our young men are shooting themselves--oh, without the least Hamletian question of 'what lies beyond,
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said to himself: "I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no compromise." In the same way, if he had decided that God and immortality did not exist, he would have at once become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the questio..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Libertatea deplina va veni atunci cand omului ii va fi absolut egal daca traieste sau daca nu traieste.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |