“if Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe.”
― Demons
― Demons
“Poetry is, after all, only nonsense and justifies what would be considered impudence if written in prose.”
― Demons
― Demons
“mankind can still continue to live without the Englishman, can continue without Germany, can continue all too well without the Russian, can continue without science, can continue without bread — it is only without beauty that we cannot continue, for there will be nothing at all to do in the world! That’s where the whole secret lies, that’s where the whole of history lies! Science itself would not last a minute without beauty —”
― Demons
― Demons
“In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.”
― Demons
― Demons
“Every one who wants the supreme freedom must dare to kill himself. He who dares to kill himself has found out the secret of the deception. There is no freedom beyond; that is all, and there is nothing beyond. He who dares kill himself is God.”
― The Possessed
― The Possessed
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