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all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.
Graf Leo Tolstoy • The Awakening The Resurrection
And what have Russian boys [like us] been doing up till now, some of them, I mean? In this stinking tavern, for instance, here, they meet and sit down in a corner. They've never in their lives before and, when they go out of the tavern, they won't meet again for forty years. And what do they talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern? Of the e
... See moreI remember it was precisely he who marveled most of all when he got acquainted with the young man, who interested him greatly and with whom he used—not without inner pangs—to have occasional intellectual altercations.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
In short, I work for pay and demand my pay at once, that is, praise and a return of love for my love. Otherwise I’m unable to love anyone!”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
And so, turmoil, confusion, and unhappiness—these are the present lot of mankind, after you suffered so much for their freedom!
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
But the novels of Dostoevsky "are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn whirled round, blinded, suffogated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Outside of Shakespeare, there is no more exciting reading." Ultimately, Russians realize,
"we are souls, tortured, unhappy souls; whose only busine
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“Do not trouble. Make yourself quite at home. And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.”