(no subject)
They say it must be so. Such and such a percentage they say, must go every year...somewhere or other...to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may be left in peace and quiet. A percentage! They have some capital words: they are so soothing and scientific. Once you've said "a percentage" there is no need to worry any more. If you used a different word, why then perhaps...it might be disturbing...
p. 43, Crime and Punishment
Now, if the room had suddenly been filled not with police officers but with his closest friends, he could not, he thought, have found a single word to say to them, so empty had his heart become. In his soul he was tormentingly conscious of a dreary feeling of eternal loneliness and estrangement.
p. 87
The sensitive and honest man opens his heart, and the business man listens and takes it all in, so taht he can swallow up the honest fellow.
p. 105
Science, however, says: love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest. If you love yourself alone, you will conduct your affairs properly, and your cloak will remain whole.
p. 126
p. 43, Crime and Punishment
Now, if the room had suddenly been filled not with police officers but with his closest friends, he could not, he thought, have found a single word to say to them, so empty had his heart become. In his soul he was tormentingly conscious of a dreary feeling of eternal loneliness and estrangement.
p. 87
The sensitive and honest man opens his heart, and the business man listens and takes it all in, so taht he can swallow up the honest fellow.
p. 105
Science, however, says: love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest. If you love yourself alone, you will conduct your affairs properly, and your cloak will remain whole.
p. 126