I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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Moje s?owa nie odpowiadaja; moim mys'lom, a to poniz.a moje mys'li.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man's done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!
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Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer.
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No, I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it! Granted, granted that there is no flaw in all that reasoning, that all that I have concluded this last month is clear as day, true as arithmetic… . My God! Anyway I couldn't bring myself to it! I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it! Why, why then am I still … ?
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
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