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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c91ebe7
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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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218d26f
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there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
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reason
notes-from-underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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dc496ef
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I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained.
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indignation
frustration
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0d5c8c8
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Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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d92a959
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if Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1acd37d
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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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78d2b45
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Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?
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meaning
reality
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1363489
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No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e0a8e8d
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how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.
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pain
relationships
people
sadness
love
unbearable
missing-someone
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e6cf1ae
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Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0569f7c
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I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
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sleep
suicide
earth
escape
depression
sorrow
fear
mother
misery
terror
horror
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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93971a3
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lys ykf~ lmr 'n ykwn dhk~Wa l`ql Ht~ l yukhd`, bl lbd lh 'yDan mn qlb Hss.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0b28340
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
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heart
punishment
psychology
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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664fe68
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I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's..
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science
over-specialization
health
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e5f3206
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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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7ed5206
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Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e9461ed
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A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b1bff67
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a man is no example for a woman. It's a different thing.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b06bda3
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It is precisely that requirement of worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"
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war
worship
freedom-of-religion
fanaticism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e1878fe
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Listen," Kirillov stopped, gazing before him with fixed, ecstatic eyes. "Listen to a big idea: There was one day on earth, and in the middle of the earth stood three crosses. One on a cross believed so much that he said to another: 'This day you will be with me in paradise.' They day ended, they both died, went, and did not find either paradise or resurrection. What had been said would not prove true. Listen: this man was the highest on all..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e1d3ba1
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You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
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pain
sadness
love
painful
suffer
mystery
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c32ab46
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, on..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3c6e841
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My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side -a little happier, anyway- and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It's all like an ocean, I tell you. Then ..
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interconnectedness
forgiveness
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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858e1be
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n lHqyq@ lSdq@ dy'm tkwn Gyr qbl@ 'n tSdq, fn shy't 'n tj`l lHqyq@ qbl@ 'n tSdq `lyk 'n tDyf lyh shyy' mn lkdhb
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3e8280c
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Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundre..
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god
redemption
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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ad7d5db
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1bcba8b
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jmy` lns y`ybwn lkhl`@, wlknhm jmy` yt`Twnh.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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1e07df3
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Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e710f0b
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At last my heart was too full.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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902be6b
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For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
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ref-1-xi
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6676490
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n m yHrk l'Hlm fyn hy lrGb@ wlys l`ql, hw lqlb wlys lr's
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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bab32a3
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thm nk t`wzk lbsT@.. nk tntqd, tusrf fy ltfkyr ..r'sk hw wHdh ldhy y`ml !! wn kbryy'k qwy@, wlknk l tjrw' `l~ tHqyq shy'
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الكبرياء
النفس
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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39b07c2
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A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6ddc551
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Ivan) Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! (The devil) You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to that pleasure. Oh, I love the dreams of my ardent young friends, quivering with eagerness for life! 'There are new men,' you decided last spring, when you were meaning to come here, 'they propose to destroy everything and begin with cannibalism. Stupid fellows! they didn't ask my advice! I maintain that nothing need b..
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science
truth
moral-law
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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31d6c6a
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The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the principal characters. But mostly the 'portrait of a truly beautiful person' that dostoevsky supposedly set out to write in that book. And I remember how Myshkin seemed so simple when I began the book, but by the end, I realized how I didn't understand him at all. the things he did. Maybe when I read it again it will be different...
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existentialism
idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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31d1e02
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All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting it. And now, too, every day I want it not to be words.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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a089c12
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It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!
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christianity
faith
belief
russia
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c672f6e
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If there is God, then the will is all his, and I cannot get out of his will. If not, the will is all mine, and it is my duty to proclaim self-will." "Self-will? And why is it your duty?" "Because the will has all become mine. Can it be that no one on the whole planet, having ended God and believed in self-will, dares to proclaim self-will to the fullest point? It's as if a poor man received an inheritance, got scared, and doesn't dare go ne..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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7e4eae5
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Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3564cbc
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Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.
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prison
pets
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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ef908bd
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m 'S`aba l'mr `l~ mn y`rf lHqyq@a wHdh
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b1b28fe
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you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |