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| bf71504 | The latter are to lose their individuality and turn into something like cattle, and with this unlimited obedience attain, through a series of regenerations, a primordial innocence, something like the primordial paradise, although they will have to work. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6273a51 | Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth, but no one saw these people anywhere; no one heard their words and voices.3 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b835e7c | Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a34990a | Why is it that even the best of men always seem to hide something from other people and to keep something back? Why not say straight out what is in one's heart, when one knows that one is not speaking idly? As it is every one seems harsher than he really is, as though all were afraid of doing injustice to their feelings, by being too quick to express them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d75f8d7 | Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d7d6f4b | And what if, besides love, there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is already loathing, contempt, revulsion--what then? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d51322e | He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live. All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 83e5a45 | Girls and boys, laughing and crying; for as they went home many of them found time to fight and make peace, to weep and play. I forgot my troubles in looking at them. And then, all those three years, I tried to understand why men should be for ever tormenting themselves. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4ec7e52 | He was one of those idealistic Russian beings who are suddenly struck by some powerful idea and immediately, then and there, seem to be crushed by it, even sometimes permanently. They are never equipped to deal with it, and instead come to believe in it passionately, and so their entire life from then on passes in its final throes, as it were, under the stone that has fallen upon them and already crushed them half to death. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aafacd9 | You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 349252e | But there are a few peculiar men among them who believe in God and are Christians, but at the same time are socialists. These are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 10c8369 | What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ad27a81 | He expressed unconditional agreement with the uselessness and absurdity of the word 'fatherland'; he agreed with the idea that religion was harmful;33 but he loudly and firmly asserted that boots were inferior to Pushkin,34 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9c3d546 | People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1a00e61 | Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e4cf755 | I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f17f6ad | But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid--simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 18acf6d | 'nh `r `ly 'y nsn, l `ly bn w'byh fHsb, 'n ytHdth ly shkhS akhr `n `lqth bmr'@ , mhm tkn hdhh l`lqt Thr@ nqy@ ! bl klm knt hdhh l`lqt 'Thr w'nqy kn ktmnh 'wjb w'lzm. 'n lHdyth fy hdhh l'mwr `yb wlys fy hdh lmjl njy yfDy lyh lmr b'srrh ! fkyf dh lm ykn thm@ shy lbt@ ? hl yjwz lklm fy hdhh lHl@ ? hl yjwz ? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 37f8510 | There are some people who interest us immediately, at first glance, before a word is exchanged. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4a4cdec | In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. 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. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2277329 | There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick of them, peering into their faces. For some reason he felt drawn to talk with everyone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 22435d4 | Y ahora se que quien es dueno de su voluntad y posee una inteligencia poderosa consigue facilmente imponerse a los demas hombres; que el mas osado es el que mas razon tiene a los ojos ajenos; que quien desafia a los hombres y los desprecia conquista su respeto y llega a ser su legislador. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cfb9ed7 | I was, of course, myself the chief sufferer, because I was fully conscious of the disgusting meanness of my spiteful stupidity, and yet at the same time I could not restrain myself. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c3e813a | the public generally can only ejaculate in amazement. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dc76355 | am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fbb4f08 | Not that I will ever believe there is nothing in common between any two people, as some declare is the case. I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances; | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3d7426e | Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9955e5a | 'n 'ry 'n qtl nsn bsbb rtkbh jrym@ qtl hw qSS l tnsb bynh wbyn ljrym@ nfsh. n qtl qtl 'fZ` kthyr mn jrym@ lqtl lty rtkbh dhlk lqtl. n lnsn ldhy yqtlh lqtl@,dh ydhbHwnh lyl fy Gb@ 'w Gyrh, yZl ly 'khr lHZ@ y'ml 'n ynjw. yrwy lns `n mqtwlyn 'nhm Zlw,b`d Hz rqbhm,y'mlwn wyHwlwn lfrr wytDr`wn sy'lyn lshfq@ `lyhm wlr'f@ bhm. 'm fy l`dm fn l'ml l'khyr, l'ml ldhy yj`l Html lmwt 'shl `shr mrt yntr` mnk "Htm". n Sdwr lHkm wstHl@ lfl mnh hm lldhn yj`.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 05c3b24 | 'n 'ry 'n qtl nsn bsbb rtkbh jrym@ qtl hw qSS l tnsb bynh wbyn ljrym@ nfsh. n qtl qtl 'fZ` kthyr mn jrym@ lqtl lty rtkbh dhlk lqtl. n lnsn ldhy yqtlh lqtl@,dh ydhbHwnh lyl fy Gb@ 'w Gyrh, yZl ly 'khr lHZ@ y'ml 'n ynjw. yrwy lns `n mqtwlyn 'nhm Zlw,b`d Hz rqbhm, y'mlwn wyHwlwn lfrr wytDr`wn sy'lyn lshfq@ `lyhm wlr'f@bhm. 'm fy l`dm fn l'ml l'khyr, l'ml ldhy yj`l Html lmwt 'shl `shr mrt yntr` mnk "Htm". n Sdwr lHkm wstHl@ lflt mnh hm lldhn yj.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b7ec5c7 | What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it?... | defiance | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 66f66ef | Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 06cb1af | You mustn't think to embarrass them with your witnessing, Your Excellency; they won't be embarrassed. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fa38784 | Insanoglu -her zaman, her yerde, kim olursa olsun- mantiginin ve cikarlarinin buyurdugu gibi degil de, gonlunun cektigi gibi davranmistir; cikarlarimizda catisan seyler de istenebilir, hatta bazen butunuyle boyle olmalidir. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 01db4d8 | Moje slowa nie odpowiadaja moim myslom, a to poniza moje mysli. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fd1e572 | With the anthill, the respectable race of ants began and with the anthill they will probably end, which does the greatest credit to their perseverance and staidness. But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like the chessplayer, loves only the process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (on cannot swear to it), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attain.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b0a88b5 | I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment. Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are EXPRESSL.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9304b37 | Kurnaz insanlar boylesi basit seylerden tuzaga duserler. Insan ne kadar kurnazsa, basit seylerden tuzaga dusuruleceginden o kadar az kusku duyar. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 41c27a5 | Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment, I can be most of of use. I know it's not for you to decide that, but I'm only asking for your opinion. You tell me, and what you say I swear I'll do! Well, what is the great thought?" "Well, to turn stones into bread. That's a great thought." "The greatest? Yes, really, you have suggested quite a new path. Tell me, is it the greatest?" "It's very great, my dear .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c005c89 | Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that ha perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to judge...If you can take upon yourself the crime of the criminal your heart is judging, take it at once, suffer for him yourself, and let him go without repro.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| befdea7 | Belki yaniliyorum ama dusunceme gore, herhangi bir kimse hakkinda, sadece gulusune bakarak hukum vermek kabildir. Onun icin hic tanimadiginiz birinin gulusu daha karsilasmanizda hosunuza giderse, karsinizdakinin iyi bir adam oldugundan tereddut etmeyiniz. | gülümsemek gülüş ölü-bir-evden-hatıralar | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e0348f7 | The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f57c106 | And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along without it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b041a9f | Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e415e20 | The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, and then later the gentleman was attached to them in order to stroke them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |