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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky


Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."

His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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He spoke of many things, he seemed to want to say everything, to speak one last time before the moment of death, to say all that had not been said in his life, and not only for the sake of instruction, but as if he wished to share his joy and ecstasy with all, to pour out his heart once more in this life
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I am very sad, and if only it were possible to resurrect him, I would give everything in the whole world.
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If they drive God from earth, we shall shelter him underground - Dmitri Karamazov
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Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry. They even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.
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Brother, in these past two months I’ve sensed a new man in me, a new man has arisen in me! He was shut up inside me, but if it weren’t for this thunderbolt, he never would have appeared.
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that is the peculiarity of your heart, and all its suffering is due to it. But thank the Creator who has given you a lofty heart capable of such suffering; of thinking and seeking higher things,
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Well, let’s go! And we go like this now, hand in hand.” “And eternally so, all our lives hand in hand! Hurrah for Karamazov!” Kolya cried once more ecstatically, and once more all the boys joined in his exclamation.
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A true act of love, unlike imaginary love, is hard and forbidding. Imaginary love yearns for an immediate heroic act that is achieved quickly and seen by everyone. People may actually reach a point where they are willing to sacrifice their lives, as long as the ordeal doesn’t last too long, is quickly over—just like on the stage, with the public watching and admiring. A true act of love, on the other hand, requires hard work and patience, and, for some, it is a whole way of life.
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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, the more keenly he must be aware of it. For
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You will behold great sorrow, and in this sorrow be happy.
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And what do we read almost daily? Of things beside which the present case grows pale, and seems almost commonplace. But what is most important is that the majority of our national crimes of violence bear witness to a widespread evil, now so general among us that it is difficult to contend against it.
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But when he knows that he is not only worse than all those in the world, but is also guilty before all people, on behalf of all and for all,2 for all human sins, the world’s and each person’s, only then will the goal of our unity be achieved.
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Los lamentos no son sino el deseo de abrir aún más la herida.
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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. if I, a sinner, even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your sins but the sins of others.
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My personal life is as monotonous as ever; but they have given me permission to walk in the garden, where there are almost seventeen trees ! This is a great happiness for me. Moreover, I am given a candle in the evenings—that's my second piece of luck. The third will be mine if you answer as soon as possible, and send me the next number of the 0. Z. I am in the same position as a country subscriber, and await each number as a great event, like some landed proprietor dying of boredom in the provinces. Will you send me some historical works ? That would be splendid. But best of all would be the Bible (both Testaments). I need one. Should it prove possible, send it in a French translation. But if you could add as well a Slav edition, it would be the height of bliss. Of
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Pytałem przed chwilą co to jest ojciec i zawołałem, że to słowo wielkie, miano drogocenne. Ale słowa trzeba, panowie, używać uczciwie (...) „ojcowie, nie rozgoryczajcie dzieci waszych”! Albowiem wypełnijmy najpierw sami wolę Chrystusową, a wtedy dopiero stawiajmy wymagania dzieciom naszym. Inaczej nie ojcami, ale wrogami dzieci naszych jesteśmy, one zaś nie dziećmi naszymi, ale wrogami, których samiśmy sobie uczynili! „Jaką miarką mierzycie, taką będzie wam odmierzone” – już nie ja to mówię, lecz Ewangelia – jakże więc obwiniać dzieci, że nam naszą miarką odmierzają? (...) ten, co zrodził, nie jest jeszcze ojcem – ojcem bowiem jest ten, co i zrodził, i zasłużył sobie na miano ojca.
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.
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Yes, universal history! It's the study of the successive follies of mankind and nothing more.
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Para que uno pueda amar a un hombre, es preciso que este hombre permanezca oculto. Apenas ve uno su rostro, el amor se desvanece.
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إن طفيليات من نوع جديد قد ظهرت، واختارت أجسام البشر مسكنا لها. غير أن هذه المخلوقات الميكروسكوبية مزودة بعقل وإرادة، والبشر الذين تدخل أجسادهم يصبحون على الفور مجانين مسعورين، ولكنهم يعدون أنفسهم على ذكاء عظيم لم يزعمه البشر لأنفسهم في يوم من الأيام قط فهم يعتقدون بأنهم معصومون من الزلل مبرؤون من الخطأ ، في أحكامهم، في نتائجهم العملية، في مبادئهم الأخلاقية والدينية. إن قرى ومدنا وأمما بكاملها قد سرت إليها هذه العدوى، وفقدت العقل. أصبح أفرادها يعيشون في حالة جنون، لا يفهم بعضهم عن بعض شيئا، لا يفهم أحد منه عن أحد شيئا؛ كل واحد يؤمن بأنه الإنسان الوحيد الذي يمتلك الحقيقة، فإذا نظر إلى الاخرين تألم وبكى ولطم صدره وعقف يديه لوعة وحسرة. أصبح الناس لا يستطيعون أن يتفاهموا على ما ينبغي أن يعد شرا وما ينبغي أن يعد خيرا. أصبحوا لا يستطيعون لا أن يدينوا ولا أن يبرئوا. أصبح البشر يقتل بعضهم بعضا تحت سيطرة بغص لا معنى له وكره لا يفهم. هم يجتمعون ليؤلفوا جيوشا كبيرة، فما أن يدخلوا معركة حتى يندلع الشقاق في جميع الصفوف فتنحل الجيوش، ويأخذ الجنود يهجم بعضهم على بعض، فيعض بعدهم بعضا، ويذبح بعضهم بعضا، ويلتهم بعضهم بعضا. ف المدن يدق ناقوس الخطر طوال النهار ويستنفر الشعب. ولكن من الذي يستنفره؟ ولماذا يستنفره؟ ذلك أمر لا يعرف أحد عنه شيئا. الرعب يستبد بجميع الخلق. المهن العادية هجرها أصحابها، لأن كل واحد يعرض آراءه وإصلاحاته وما من أحد يستطيع أن يتفق مع أحد. أهملت الزراعة إهمالا تاما. هنا وهناك يجتمع أناس فيشكلون جماعات ويتفاهمون على القيام بعمل مشترك، متعاهدين بأغلظ الأيمان على أن لا يفترقوا قط، ولكنهم ما يلبثون أن يشرعوا في شيء لا يمت بصلة إلى ما عقدوا النية على القيام به، ثم ما يلبثون أن يأخذوا في التراشق بالتهمـ ثم ما يلبثوا أن يقتتلوا فيذبح بعصهم بعضا. وتشتعل الحرائق وتظهر المجاعة. كل شيء يصيبه الدمار وجميع الناس يهلكون. البلاء ما ينفك يشتد قوة ويتسع مدى. ولا ينجو من البلاء إلا عدد قليل من الناس: هم الأنقياء الأطهار المصطفون الأخيار الذين كتب عليهم أن ينشئوا جنسا جديدا وأن يقيموا حياة جديدة، أن يجددوا الأرض ويطهورها. غير أن أحدا لم ير أولئك الأفراد في مكان ولا سمع أقوالهم ولا سمع اصواتهم.
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