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the natural conclusion of all these internal conflicts was the thought of death which always lurks on the frontiers of every dream of happiness. to die, thought zorka, to slip from the kapia into the river as if by chance...to die, she thought...before going to sleep and on recovering consciousness in the morning, [and in] the most lively conversations...but one does not die, but lives with that insupportable thought
— Sep 20, 2025 06:52PM
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silence is for prayer; it is itself like a prayer
— Sep 20, 2025 07:44PM
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the signal was given, the barriers were down. as has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief
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and when everything is withered, broken, soiled, humiliated, disintegrated and destroyed about you, then you will remain alone in the wilderness you have yourself created, face to face with your vanity and you will have nothing to offer it. then you will devour yourself, but that will not help you, for your vanity accustomed to richer food will despise and reject you.
— Sep 20, 2025 06:15PM
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you submit everything to your vanity but you are yourself the first of its slaves and its greatest martyr. it may well be that you will have still greater glory and success...but you will find no satisfaction in any one thing, for your vanity will whip you onwards, for it swallows everything, even the greatest successes and then forgets them immediately, but the slightest failure or insult it will remember forever.
— Sep 20, 2025 06:13PM
sonechka
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i know your very soul and i know that you are a monster of vanity.
someone else's sorrow cannot move you, how much less hurt you; not even your own sorrow unless it flatters your vanity. you desire nothing and you find joy in nothing.
instead of conscience it is only your own wounded vanity that can sting you, for it alone, always and in everything, speaks with your mouth and dictates your actions.
— Sep 20, 2025 06:03PM
someone else's sorrow cannot move you, how much less hurt you; not even your own sorrow unless it flatters your vanity. you desire nothing and you find joy in nothing.
instead of conscience it is only your own wounded vanity that can sting you, for it alone, always and in everything, speaks with your mouth and dictates your actions.
sonechka
is on page 233 of 314
they went out into the world, chose more or less for themselves...the subject of their studies, the nature of their entertainments and the circle of their friends...all that other[s]...[had] attained in the course of generations, through centuries of effort, at the cost of lives, of renunciations and of sacrifices greater and dearer than life, now lay before them as a chance inheritance and a dangerous gift of fate.
— Sep 20, 2025 05:27PM
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whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite
— Sep 20, 2025 03:09PM
sonechka
is on page 169 of 314
there, on the other side; let those ask about his sins who will ask all the rest of us about ours
— Sep 20, 2025 10:33AM
