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Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word for it, the highest moment if his happiness was just three days before the discovery of the New World, when the mutinous crew were on the point of returning to Europe in despair. It wasn't the New World that mattered, even if it had fallen to pieces. Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing wha..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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mn mn yDl lTryq wm` dhlk nsyr jmy`an l~ Gy@ wHd@ 'w lnql ys`~ ljmy` l~ nhy@ wHd@, mn lHkym Ht~ akhr mjrm Ht~ wn khtlft lsbl .
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
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regret
the-past
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, g..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been bindi..
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books
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n lnsny@ stjd fy nfsh lqdr@ `l~ 'n tHy llfDyl@ , sw 'amnt bkhlwd lrwH 'm lm tw'mn
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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'yh lsyd lkrym, lys lfqr rdhyl@, wl ldmn `l~ lskr fDyl@, 'n '`rf dhlk 'yDan. wlkn lbw's rdhyl@ 'yh lsyd lkrym, lbw's rdhyl@. ystTy` lmr fy lfqr 'n yZl mHfZan `l~ nbl `wTfh lfTry@, 'm fy lbw's fl ystTy` dhlk ywman, wm mn 'Hd ystTy`h qT. dh knt fy lbw's fnk l tuTrd mn mjtm` lbshr Drban bl`S, bl tuTrd mnh Drban blmkns@, bGy@ dhllk mzydan mn ldhll. wlns `l~ Hq fy dhlk, l'nk fy lbw's 'wl mn yryd hdh ldhl lnfsh bnfsh. whdh sbb dmnk `l~ lshrb.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of their sin and downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this earth, so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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kl '`ml lnsn tt'lf fy lHqyq@ mn shy wHd fqT hw thbth lnfsh fy kl lHZ@
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!"
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facts
ingenuity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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56628ce
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At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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knt 'jls Twl llyl wfy lHqyq@ lm 'kn 'nSt lyhm. 'w sm`hm. bl lqd nsyt wjwdhm. lqd `tdt 'n 'jls `l~ lmq`d l~ lTwl@ Twl llyl dwn 'n 'f`l shyy'an . 'jls fHsb wl 'fkr.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
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prison
punishment
society
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one lives or does not live. That is the goal to everything." "The goal? But then perhaps no one will even want to live?" "No one," he said resolutely. "Man is afraid of death because he loves life, that's how I understand it," I observed, "and that is what nature tells us." "That is base, that is the whole deceit!" ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier than those in the world because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, but, on the contrary, anyone who comes here, by the very fact that he has come, already knows himself to be worse than all those who are in the world, worse than all on earth...And the longer a monk lives within his walls, ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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we are all privately agreed that it is better in books
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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y rb! qblny rGm HTty, wlkn l tHkm `lyW. llhm smH ly 'n 'jy lyk dwn 'n 'mthl 'mm mHkmtk... l tHkm `lyW, m dmt qd Hkmt `l~ nfsy bnfsy.... l tHkm `lyW, l'nny 'Hbk y rb! llhm nny khbyth dny, wlkny 'Hbk, wHt~ fy ljHym, dh 'nt 'rsltny l~ ljHym, s'Zl 'Hbk, ws'Zl 'htf lk bHby l~ l'bd, wlkn d` ly 'n 'Hb Hby l'rDy Ht~ lnhy@.. smH ly 'n Zl 'Hb, fy hdhh lHy@ ldny, khms s`t 'khr~, l~ 'n tTl` shmsk ldfy'@.. nny 'Hb mlk@ qlby, wl 'mlk 'n 'mtn` `n Hbh, llh..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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n lHb sr GmD l yfhmh l llh
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask virtue of them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Life is given to me only once, and never will be again--I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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nh ytfq ly kthyr 'thn ndf`y fy lHlm 'n tstbd by Hms@ shshdyd@ wrGb@ `rm@ jmH@ fy khdm@ lnsny@ , Ht~ lqd rtDy 'n 'n 'uSlb fy sbyl lbshr dh bd hdh Drwry fy lHZ@ mn llHZt . wm` dhlk lw 'ryd ly 'n '`ysh ywmyn mttlyn fy Grf@ wHd@ m` 'y nsn , lm stT`t n 'Html dhlk . nny '`rf hdh btjrb@ . fmt~ wjdt nfsy qrb nsn akhr 'Hsst b'n shkhSyth tSdm dhty wtjwr `l~ Hryty . nny qdr fy md~ 'rb` w`shryn s`@ `l~ 'n 'krh 'Hsn nsn :fhdh ySbH fy nZry nsn l yTq l'nh..
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حب
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m ldhy yq`dk?.. lfqr?.. l`wz?.. wlkn lfqr hw ldhy ySn` lfnn. whw 'mr lbd mnh fy lbdy@. nk lan nsn mhml, l yHtj lyk 'Hd, wl yHtj 'Hd 'n y`rfk.. tlk hy lHy@..
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poverty
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...
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attainment
chaos
destruction
goals
human-nature
reaching-your-goals
success
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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min Husni lHZ, `l~ l'ql, 'nWa lnsna l yt'lmu md@an Twyl@an Hyna yuqTa`u r'sh. hdhhi lmlHZ@ lty dhkrth 'nta lan takhTru bbli klWa nsn. wltHqyqi hdhhi lGy@ nm khtr`w tlka lal@, '`ny lmiqSal@. 'm 'n fqd khTrt fy bbly fy dhlka lywm fkr@un 'khr~ dh tsltu: "tur~ 'l ymkn 'n ykwna hdh 'sw'?".... fkWir fy l'mr: lnnZr fy lt`dhybi mthlan. nWa lalma wljrwHa wlwj`a ljsmy, nWa hdh klWahu yshGlu lnfsa `n `dhbh wynsyh m qd tukbdhu mn hwl, fl yt'lmu lmru `n..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, yo..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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dh knt fy lbw's fnk l tTrd mn mjtm` lbshr Drb bl`S, bl tTrd mnh Drb blmkns@, bGy@ dhllk mzyd mn ldhll
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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l ywqZ l'shqy fy lqlwb l `Tf@ lshfq@, Hyth ybky lns `l~ hw'l l'shqy dwn 'n ywjhw lyhm klm@ tqry`! wHyn l yqr`k 'Hd, fnk tsh`r b'lm 'shd w`dhb 'qw~ !
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from Earth but to set up Heaven on earth.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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n m ybq~ fy '`mq lnfs mn 'mwr 'kthr kthyran mm yZhr fy lklmt .. m Zl tfkyrk fy dkhlk , fnh mhm ykn D`yfan yZl '`mq mm Hyn tufSH `nh . n tfkyrk , mt~ `brt `nh , ySbH 'qrb l~ lDHk w'b`d `n lSdq
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But I'll add, that there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without c..
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in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact. And even if he does admit it, he will admit it as a fact of nature that was previously unknown..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I was especially happy when, going to bed and covering myself with a blanket, I began, alone now, in the most complete solitude, with no people moving around and not a single sound from them, to re-create life in a different key.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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n lqlb lkrym ymkn 'n yHb mn qbyl lshfq@
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found c..
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