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“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Juzgará y perdonará a todos, a buenos y a malos, a los prudentes y a los humildes. Y cuando los haya perdonado, entonces también nos llamará a nosotros: "¡Salid vosotros!", nos dirá. "¡Que salgan los borrachos, que salgan los miedosos, que salgan los impúdicos!". Saldremos todos, sin avergonzarnos, y nos pondremos de pie. Dirá: "Sois unos cerdos. Tenéis la imagen y el sello de la Bestia; pero ¡acercaos también vosotros!". Exclamarán los sensatos, exclamarán los razonables: "¡Señor! ¿Por qué admites a éstos?". Y dirá: "Pues los acepto, sensatos; los acepto, razonables, porque ninguno de ellos se ha considerado digno de ser recibido..." Extenderá los brazos hacia nosotros, nosotros acudiremos, nos echaremos a llorar... y lo comprenderemos todo. ¡Entonces lo comprenderemos todo!... Y todos comprenderán, Katerina Ivánovna también comprenderá... ¡Señor, venga a nos tu reino!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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