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f7f9261
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We have facts,' they say. But facts are not everything--at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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fb6ea58
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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you'd think it was champagne.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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d6ce2ed
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Well, what, what new thing can they say to me that I don't know myself? And is that the point? The point here is that--one turn of the wheel, and everything changes, and these same moralizers will be the first (I'm sure of it) to come with friendly jokes to congratulate me. And they won't all turn away from me as they do now. Spit on them all! What am I now? . What may I be tomorrow? Tomorrow I may rise from the dead and begin to live anew..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b355109
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Can I possibly not understand myself that I'm a lost man? But--why can't I resurrect? Yes! it only takes being calculating and patient at least once in your life and--that's all! It only takes being steadfast at least once, and in an hour I can change my whole destiny!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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d91d5ff
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I've been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself? If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment--still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to t..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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788f9f4
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Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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fbc942e
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On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst in this moment to kiss, weeping tears, that very earth which I left and I do not desire or accept life on any other ! . . .
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love
suffering-of-humanity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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d42eb2c
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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In any case civilization has made mankind if not more blood-thirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely blood-thirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0cd43ae
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n fy 'SHb lnfws lHss@,lmrhf@,lrqyq@ nw` mn l`nd fy b`D l'Hyn, ftr~ 'Hdhm y'b~ 'n y`br llshkhS ldhy yHbh `n Hbh...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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dcc2e3b
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And a , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f5e2f6e
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nWa jwhra l`Tf@ ldyny@ mstqlun `n jmy`i lbrhyn, wjmy`i l'f`li lsyWy'@ wjmy`i ljry'mi wjmy`i mdhhbi llHd. nWa fy hdhhi l`Tf@ shyy'an l ymknu 'n tnlhu 'dlW@u lmlHdyn fy ywmin mina l'ym. wsyZlWu l'mru `l~ hdh lnHwi 'bda ldWWhr.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f802f0c
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nHn hn, y Sdyqy, l nus'l r'yn, wnm turtb l'mwr dwn stshrtn !
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others, though you wrote volumes about it and spent thirty-five years in explaining your idea; something will always be left that will obstinately refuse to emerge from your head and that will remain with you for ever and you will die w..
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the-idiot
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And it all flew away like a dream--even my passion, and yet it really was strong and true, but...where has it gone now? Indeed the thought occasionally flits through my head: "Didn't I go out of my mind then and spend the whole time sitting in a madhouse somewhere, and maybe I'm sitting there now--so that for me it was all a and only to this day."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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848b6ca
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Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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677e803
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n lkhT' hw lmyz@ lty ymtz bh lnsn `l~ sy'r lky'nt lHy@ , mn ykhTy ySl l~ lHqyq@ , 'n nsn l'nny 'khTy. m wSl mrw' l~ lHqyq@ wHd@ l b`d 'n 'khT' 'rb` `shr@ mr@ whdh fy dhth lys fyh m y`yb. wlkn lns l y`rfwn Ht~ 'n ykhTy'w b'nfshm . lk 'n tqwl ar jnwny@ wlkn ltkn hdhh lr ark 'nt , f'Gmrk blqbl . l'n ykhTy lmr bTryqth lshkhSy@ fdhlk ykd ykwn khyr mn tryd Hqyq@ lqn@ yh Gyrh . 'nt fy lHl@ l'wl~ nsn , 'm fy lHl@ lthny@ f'nt bbG l 'kthr.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books
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notes-from-underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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dc9bd86
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Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!
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thanks
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia - that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. I've already mentioned this above. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow minded. How to explain it? Here's how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for the primary ones, and thus bec..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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216f2f7
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I left proud, but with my spirit crushed.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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20e1f86
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dh m l`dhb wl'lm ... sw~ lmHrk lwHyd llw`y
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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0098369
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How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake
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love
departure
unbearable
yearning
missing-someone
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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At first--long before indeed--he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected, and why almost all criminals leave such obvious traces? He had come gradually to many different and curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossibility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself. Almost every criminal is subject to a failur..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything - that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations--and absolutely nothing more. And through the development of this many-sidedness man may come to finding enjoyment in bloodshed. In fact, this has already happened to him. Have you noticed that it is the most civilised gentlemen who have been the subtlest slaughterers, to whom the Attilas and Stenka Razins could not hold a candle, and if they are not..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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456c0af
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one can't hold one's tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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031ce19
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rqb slwkk fy kl s`@ wfy kl dqyq@ mn lywm Ht~ tsh` lThr@ mnk
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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mankind can still continue to live without the Englishman, can continue without Germany, can continue all too well without the Russian, can continue without science, can continue without bread -- it is only without beauty that we cannot continue, for there will be nothing at all to do in the world! That's where the whole secret lies, that's where the whole of history lies! Science itself would not last a minute without beauty --
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was reading. Reading, of course, was a great help--exciting me, giving me pleasure and pain. But at times it bored me fearfully. One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pett..
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vice
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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d293474
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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b4c0c89
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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
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pyotr-petrovitch
russian-proverb
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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485da14
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If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets -secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one's closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one's own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That's why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6d8a30e
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I don't understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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206c16c
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Reality alone justifies everything.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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2369fff
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Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
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feelings
heart
helpless
subdued
dostoyevsky
humiliation
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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c103395
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Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.
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dostoevsky
russian-literature
classics
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whkdh, `ndm nkwn t`s, fnn nHs bmHn@ lakhryn bSwr@ 'fDl. n lHss l ytbdd, bl nh yshtd..." "
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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6a7af56
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I create entire romances in my dreams.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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9974737
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Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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342f793
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Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some green,decayed on the edges. Blown about by the wind. When I was 10 years old, I'd close my eyes on purpose, in winter, and imagine a leaf - green, bright, with veins, and the sun shining. I'd open my eyes and not believe it, because it was so good, then I'd close them again. " "What's that, an allegory?" "N-no... Why? Not an allegory, simply a..
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russian-literature
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |