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my kingdom is as great as the world. I am a cosmopolitan. No country can claim to be my birthplace. I adopt every custom, I speak every tongue. In this way, you see, being of no country, asking for the protection of no government and acknowledging no man as my brother, I am not restrained or hampered by a single one of the scruples that tie the hands of the powerful or the obstacles that block the path of the weak.

But man, man whom God made in His image, man whom God gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should love his neighbour, man to whom God gave a voice to express his thoughts-what is man’s first cry when he learns that his neighbour is saved? A curse.

“And now, farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude… Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!”

Credința era pur și simplu un toiag care-l susținea pe om, ajutându-l să nu rătăcească drumul și să se ridice în picioare dacă se împiedica și cădea.

A stupid indifference about what would happen to him gradually crept up on Artyom. Now he only had an abstract interest in what was surrounding him, as though none of this was happening to him, but he was just reading a book about it. The fate of the main character interested him, of course, but if he was killed then he could just pick another book off the shelf - one with a happy ending.