I am seriously falling in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though his books reach into the animal minds of us all, and are so ravished with depression and despair.. they captivate me so much! I dread putting them down, and ironically picking them back up. To give you just a small taste of his brilliance, I want to share a few quotes from him that I read yesterday. :)
this quote I found very ironic since this book was published 1866..
"How did your lecturer in Moscow reply when he was asked why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to hurry up and get rich too.' I don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was taht he wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've got used to having everything ready-made for us, from walking on crutches to chewing our food. Then the great moment (Tsar Alexander II's emancipation of the *slaves) arrived, and everyone showed their true colours."
haha, sound familiar? ^^
"Nonsense! There's no practicality." Razumkhin flew at him. "Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like are fermenting," he said to Peter Petrovich, "and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are people who hi-jack it. Anyway, there's no practicality. Practicality has to hae some kind of expereince behind it."
This next quote is from a man who has fled his family for drink, and has met the main character in a pub, and is relaying his side of the story, per se. His words are dark, yet they echo the epitamy of this mans soul. You can sense it. Though its context has been ripped from it, as it is now just a quote, its still profound. Read on!
" 'To be pitied! Why am I to be pitied?' Marmeladov suddenly cried out, standing up with his arm out stretched, positively inspired, as though he had been only waiting for that question. 'Why am I to be pitied, you say? Yes! There's nothing to pity me for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied! Crucify , oh judge, crucify, but when you have crucified, take pity on him! And then I myself will go to be crucified, for it's not merry-making I seek but tears and tribulation! ...Do you suppose, you that sell, that this half-bottle of yorus has been sweet to me? It was tribulation I sought at the bottom of it, tears and tribulation, and have tasted it, and have fount it; but He will pity us Who has had pity on all men, Who has understood all men and all things, He is the One. He too is the judge. He will come in that day and He will ask: 'Where is the daughter who gave herself for mean, consumptive step-moether and for the filthy drunkard, her earthly father, undismayed by his beastliness?' And He will say, 'Come to me! I have already forgiven thee once...I have forgiven thee once...Thy sins which are many are fogiven thee for thou hast loved much...' And he will forgie my Sonia, He will forgive, I know it... I felt it in my heart when I was with her just now! And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the and the meek....And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, withotu shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' And He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.' And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him...and we shall weep...and we shall understand, Katerina Ivanovna even..she will understand...Lord, they Kingdom come!'
aaah, a real literary genius!
