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All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov
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September 4, 2020 – Started Reading
September 4, 2020 – Shelved
September 4, 2020 – Shelved as: to-read
September 4, 2020 –
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0.0% ""With the Russians it is different. They have only been inoculated with the virus of European culture and ethic. The virus works in them like a disease.

Russia's modern Christianity even was not Russian. Her genuine Christianity, Byzantine and Asiatic, is incomprehensible to us."

D. H. Lawrence in the Foreword"
September 4, 2020 –
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0.0% ""Everything is possible" - this is his really central cry. It is not nihilism. It is only a shaking free of the human psyche from old bonds. The positive central idea is that the human psyche, or soul, really believes in itself, and in nothing else."

D. H. Lawrence in the Foreword"
September 4, 2020 –
page 15
6.1% ""Tolstoy realised the dangers of the paradisal state. He stooped to talk of inaction for a moment—and then he began to work.


The Secret of Pushkin's "inner harmony." - To Pushkin nothing was hopeless. Nay, he saw hopeful signs in everything.""
September 4, 2020 – Shelved as: russian-philosopher
September 4, 2020 – Shelved as: kierkegaard-a-kindred-spirit
September 5, 2020 –
page 17
6.91% ""Most of Turgenev’s works are curious in respect of philosophy. But most curious is his Diary of a Superfluous Man. Turgenev was the first to introduce the term "a superfluous man" into Russian literature."

"Turgenev was the most educated, the most cultured of all Russian writers""
September 7, 2020 –
page 21
8.54% "The habit of logical thinking kills imagination ."

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