To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the actual crime itself. Judicial murder is immeasurably more horrible than one committed by a robber. Someone killed by a robber, knifed at night in forest or somewhere, certainly keeps hoping for a rescue right up to the last second. There have been instances of people whose throats have been cut still hoping for rescue right up to the last second. There have been instances of people whose throats have been cut still hoping, or running away, or pleading for their lives. But all this final hope, which makes dying ten times easier is taken away by that certain; the sentence is pronounced and the whole agony resides in the fact that there’s no escape. There is no greater torture in the world than that. Fetch a soldier and stand him right in front of a cannon during a battle and fire at him, he’ll go on hoping; but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier and he’ll go off his head or bust into tears. Who can say that human nature can bear such a thing like that without going mad? Why this disgusting pointless, unnecessary mockery? Perhaps there exists a man who has had his sentence read out to him and been allowed to suffer before being told: “Be off, you’ve been pardoned.” That man could tell you perhaps. Christ himself spoke of such agony and terror. No, a man should not be treated so!
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: capital-punishment
Direi que acabe o mundo mas que eu sempre possa tomar o meu chá.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: chá fim-do-mundo
¿Si en realidad el hombre no fuese cobarde, el hombre tomado en conjunto, dicho de otro modo, el género humano? Esto significaría que todo lo demás no son más que prejuicios, terrores puramente imaginarios, y que no existen limitaciones. ¡Así es como debe ser!...
Fyodor DostoevskyThe morning was so damp and misty
Fyodor DostoevskyNow is the time to throw a bottle at their heads," I thought to myself. I picked up the bottle... and filled my glass...
Fyodor DostoevskyAlthough your mind works, your heart is
darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and
true consciousness
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A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero
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After all, man may be fond not only of
well-being. Perhaps he is just as fond
of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just
as much in his interest as well-being?
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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
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I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort
in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!
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