What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...
("Notes from Underground")
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He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such a temptation? Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracles and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonizing spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of their heart? ... and thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to god and not ask for a miracle.
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There is a great and unresolved thought in him. He's one of those who don't need millions, but need to resolve their thought.
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