The Brothers Karamazov
- ABD OUцитирует4 года назад
I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short, I am a hired servant, I expect my payment at once—that is, praise, and the repayment of love with love. Otherwise I am incapable of loving anyone.” - ABD OUцитирует4 года назадrule has been that you can always find something devilishly interesting in every woman that you wouldn’t find in any other. Only, one must know how to find it, that’s the point! That’s a talent! To my mind there are no ugly women. The very fact that she is a woman is half the battle …
- Fatima younusцитирует4 года назад
“You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don’t be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires.” That is the modern doctrine of the world. In that they see freedom - anti tusitцитирует3 года назад
But try acknowledging you are in fault to a woman. Say, ‘I am sorry, forgive me,’ and a shower of reproaches will follow! Nothing will make her forgive you simply and directly, she’ll humble you to the dust, bring forward things that have never happened, recall everything, forget nothing, add something of her own, and only then forgive you. - ABD OUцитирует4 года назадsuffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? It would be transformed into an endless church service; it would be holy, but tedious.
- ABD OUцитирует4 года назад“It was said of old, ‘Many have begun to speak against me and have uttered evil sayings about me. And hearing it I have said to myself: it is the correction of the Lord and He has sent it to heal my vain soul.’
- Saifuцитирует4 года назад
Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor,” he used to say afterwards, with his loathsome snigger. In a man so depraved this might, of course, mean no more than sensual attraction. As he had received no dowry with his wife, and had, so to speak, taken her “from the halter,” he did not stand on ceremony with her. Making her feel that she had “wronged” him, he took advantage of her - Shryna Gangulyцитируетвчера
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.=》 (Father Zossima talking about Fyodor)
=》 Fyodor plays the victim in order to feel better about himself.
=》 For example, when Fyodor's first wife died, he went all over town, scandalizing everyone by telling how his wife used to beat him.
=》 He does this to gain the sympathy of others by making himself seem as though he is not to blame for the incident because he can not live with knowing he bears such guilt. Therefore, over time, he has unconsciously incorporated this behavior into his persona, regardless if he realizes it or not.
=》 Father Zossima has already deduced this and warns Fyodor that his tendency to always play the victim and lying to himself will lead to his own downfall by forgetting the feelings of love towards others, to which he will only become more miserable.
=》 To take pleasure in offense-taking means one finds pleasure in something that he did not find directly offensive or offensive at all, but rather he will display to the public that he has taken offense in order to fuel his self-importance further. This is what Zossima means by 'taking pleasure in taking offense' - Shryna GangulyцитируетвчераAbove all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Shryna GangulyцитируетвчераWhen you said just now, ‘Don’t be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all,’ you pierced right through me by that remark, and read me to the core. Indeed, I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon. So I say, ‘Let me really play the buffoon. I am not afraid of your opinion, for you are every one of you worse than I am.’ That is why I am a buffoon.
