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“Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.' 'So, that other God does exist, in your opinion?' 'He doesn't exist, but he does exist. In the stone there' no pain, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever conquers pain and fear will himself become God.”

God Death Suicide Russia Demons Classics Russian Russian Literature Dostoyevsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian Lit

Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“perchè non c'è nessun altro dal quale andare! Bisogna pure che ogni uomo abbia qualche posto dove andare. Poichè ci sono momenti in cui assolutamente bisogna andare da qualche parte!”

Humanity Human Nature Russian Literature

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“What if I were not to die! What if life were given back to me—what infinity! And it would all be mine! then I’d turn each minute into a whole age, I’d lose nothing, I’d reckon up every minute separately, I’d let nothing be wasted!”

Life Death Suffering Dread Russian Literature

Book:The Idiot

Source: The Idiot

“And what if I am wrong,' he cried suddenly after a moment's thought. 'What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind—then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”

Morality Reality Of Life Russian Literature

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“And where there is love, you can live even without happiness. Life is good even in sorrow; it is good to live in the world. However you live.”

Love Hope Desperation Russian Literature Dostoevsky

Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She said nothing, she only looked at me without a word. But it hurts more, it hurts more when they don't blame!”

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Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.”

Graduation Russian Literature Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky Alyosha Karamazov

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.”

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Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

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