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Besides, this monk was meddlesome and adroit by nature, and extremely curious about everything.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Thus he possessed in himself, in his very nature, so to speak, artlessly and directly, the gift of awakening a special love for himself.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
When Kafka writes, “Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams…changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin,” you don’t say, “No, he didn’t, Franz,” and throw the book across the room.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
And where is the harmony, if there is hell?
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
All of young Russia is talking now only about the eternal questions. Precisely now, just when all the old men have suddenly gotten into practical questions.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Every man ‘seen distinctly enough is abnormal, for the normal is only a name for the undifferentiated, for a failure to see the inescapable nuance.’19
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
He longed to shout to him and to the people in the railway coach that salvation lay not in loyalty to forms but in throwing them off.
Pasternak Boris • Doctor Zhivago
Assiduous reading in “the divine” certainly added to the pomposity of his physiognomy.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Such things you love not with your mind, not with logic, but with your insides, your guts, you love your first young strength … Do you understand any of this blather, Alyoshka, or not?” Ivan suddenly laughed.