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Book: The Possessed
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
What is the mother of God? What do you think?' 'The great mother,' I answer, 'the hope of the human race.' 'Yes,' she answered, 'the mother of God is the great mother-the damp earth, and therein lies great joy for men. And every earthly woe and every earthly tear is a joy for us; and when you water the earth with your tears a foot deep, you will rejoice at everything at once, and your sorrow will be no more, such is the prophecy.' That
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
Why is it-as I've noticed," Stepan Trofimovitch whispered to me once, "why is it that all these desperate socialists and communists are at the same time such incredible skinflints, so avaricious, so keen over property, and, in fact, the more socialistic, the more extreme they are, the keener they are over property... why is it? Can that, too, come from sentimentalism?" I
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
He was one of those idealistic beings common in Russia, who are suddenly struck by some overmastering idea which seems, as it were, to crush them at once, and sometimes for ever. They are never equal to coping with it, but put passionate faith in it, and their whole life passes afterwards, as it were, in the last agonies under the weight of the stone that has fallen upon them and half crushed them. In
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Possessed
People who can speak well, speak briefly.
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