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"...Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he'll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he'll go mad, or start to weep. Who can say that human nature is able to endure such a thing without going mad? Why such mockery — ugly, superfluous, futile?..." (p27)
— Dec 16, 2025 12:24PM
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"You know, it's hard to distinguish your love from rage... and when it passes, things may even get worse... You'll hate her intensely for this love you feel, and for all this torment you're accepting now..." (p249)
— Jan 04, 2026 12:58AM
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"...The most vile and hateful thing about money is that it even imparts talent. And will go on doing so until the end of the world." (p146)
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"...but what kind of idiot am I now, when I myself am aware of the fact that people consider me an idiot?" (p89) #selfawareking
— Dec 17, 2025 12:19AM
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Dec 16, 2025 12:31PM
I think about the moral weight that capital punishment imposes more often than I'd like to admit, but Myshkin's moral clarity on this issue (& so well articulated too) is refreshing and one that has been turning in my mind. Its cruelty lies in how it deprives people of hope at the time of their death, multiplying their suffering needlessly. And this contemplation has led me to consider how it might very well remove the one opportunity for redemption that an individual is offered in life even after enacting a great sin, given the religious foundation that Myshkin's argument rests on.
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