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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    I experienced, moreover, one form of suffering which is perhaps the sharpest, the most painful that can be experienced in a house of detention cut off from law and liberty. I mean forced association. Association with one's fellow men is to some extent forced everywhere and always; but nowhere is it so horrible as in a prison, where there are men with whom no one would consent to live.
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  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over the body and spirit of a human creature like himself, a creature created in the same image and subject to the same law of Christ; any man who has tasted this power, this boundless opportunity to humiliate most bitterly another being made in the image of God - becomes the servant instead of the master of his own emotions. Tyranny is a habit. It can and does eventually develop into a disease. I believe that the best of men may grow coarse, degrade to the level of a beast by sheer force of habit. Blood and power intoxicate one, they develop callousness and lust. The greatest perversions grow finally acceptable and even delicious to mind and heart. The man and the citizen perish in the tyrant for ever and the return to human dignity, remorse and spiritual rebirth becomes scarcely possible to him. Besides, the example and mere possibility of arbitrary power are contagious; they are indeed a great temptation. A society which regards such things calmly is already corrupt at the roots.
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  3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect.
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  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    ... dupa ce a trecut o linie interzisa pentru el, incepe sa nu i se mai para nimic sfant pe lume, de parca ceva-l impinge sa sara peste orice fel de legalitate si putere si sa se delecteze cu libertatea cea mai neinfranata ...
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  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Adeseori, un om rabda in tacere ani de-a randul, indura resemnat cele mai crunte pedepse, dar deodata il vezi rabufnind dintr-o nimica toata, pentru te miri ce lucru neinsemnat, incat ramai uluit si te intrebi de mai e in toate mintile; caci ceea ce face el atunci pare de-a dreptul o nebunie.
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  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Elbette insan bir makine değildir; işkenceci görevi gereği dayak atar, ama arada bir onun da coştuğu olur. Ancak dayak atarken, çoğu zaman kurbanından kendi hıncını çıkardığı için zevk duymaz. Amacı vuruşlarındaki çevikliği, işinde ne kadar usta olduğunu göstererek arkadaşlarıyla seyircilerin takdirlerini kazanmaktır. Yani bu işi sanat aşkına yapar.
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  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    إن العقل لا سلطان له على أناس مثل "بتروف" إلا بمقدار ما تكون نفوسهم خالية من الرغبة في شيء من الأشياء، حتى إذا شبت في نفوسهم هذه الرغبة لم تحل بينهم وبين تحقيق إرادتهم أي عقبات
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  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Belki yanılıyorum ama düşünceme göre, herhangi bir kimse hakkında, sadece gülüşüne bakarak hüküm vermek kabildir. Onun için hiç tanımadığınız birinin gülüşü daha karşılaşmanızda hoşunuza giderse, karşınızdakinin iyi bir adam olduğundan tereddüt etmeyiniz.
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  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    it seems to me that a man's character may be recognized by his mere laugh. If you know a man whose laugh inspires you with sympathy, be assured he is an honest man.
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  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I was told that he had once published it, but the learned world had only laughed at him. I think his wits were a little deranged.
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  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Here is the world to which I am condemned, in which, despite myself, I must somehow live.' I said.
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