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Demons
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“Cicero’s tongue is cut off, Copernicus’s eyes are put out, Shakespeare is stoned—this is Shigalyovism. Slaves must be equal: there has never yet been either freedom or equality without despotism, but within a herd, there must be equality, and this is Shigalyovism. Ha, ha, ha, so you find it strange? I’m for Shigalyovism. � Verkhovensky.�
“We'll extinguish desire: we’ll get drinking, gossip, denunciation going; we’ll get unheard-of depravity going; we’ll stifle every genius in infancy. Everything reduced to a common denominator, complete equality. We’ve learned to trade, and we’re honest people, we don’t need anything else’—that was the recent response of the English workers. Only the necessary is necessary—henceforth that is the motto of the whole globe.�
“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread (really?) and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole history is here! Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty—are you aware of that, you who are laughing?—it would turn into boorishness, you couldn’t invent the nail!... I will not yield!� he cried absurdity in conclusion, and banged his fist on the table with all his might.�
One more time, Dostoevsky made a masterpiece!
Demons is a puzzling novel, without doubt, an X-Ray—of the human soul. It is based on real events of a political murder that shocked the old Russian society of 1869.
“We'll extinguish desire: we’ll get drinking, gossip, denunciation going; we’ll get unheard-of depravity going; we’ll stifle every genius in infancy. Everything reduced to a common denominator, complete equality. We’ve learned to trade, and we’re honest people, we don’t need anything else’—that was the recent response of the English workers. Only the necessary is necessary—henceforth that is the motto of the whole globe.�
“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread (really?) and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole history is here! Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty—are you aware of that, you who are laughing?—it would turn into boorishness, you couldn’t invent the nail!... I will not yield!� he cried absurdity in conclusion, and banged his fist on the table with all his might.�
One more time, Dostoevsky made a masterpiece!
Demons is a puzzling novel, without doubt, an X-Ray—of the human soul. It is based on real events of a political murder that shocked the old Russian society of 1869.
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