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Часть текста: drawing near. I am convinced that he suffered dreadfully from terror, especially on the night before he started—that awful night. Nastasya mentioned afterwards that he had gone to bed late and fallen asleep. But that proves nothing; men sentenced to death sleep very soundly, they say, even the night before their execution. Though he set off by daylight, when a nervous man is always a little more confident (and the major, Virginsky's relative, used to give up believing in God every morning when the night was over), yet I am convinced he could never, without horror, have imagined himself alone on the high road in such a position. No doubt a certain desperation in his feelings softened at first the terrible sensation of sudden solitude in which he at once found himself as soon as he had left Nastasya, and the corner in which he had been warm and snug for twenty years. But it made no difference; even with the clearest recognition of all the horrors awaiting him he would have gone out to the high road and walked along it! There was something proud in the undertaking which allured him in spite of everything. Oh, he might have accepted Varvara Petrovna's luxurious provision and have remained living on her charity, “ comme un humble dependent.” But he had not accepted her charity and was not remaining! And here he was leaving her of himself, and holding aloft the “standard of a great idea, and going to die for it on the open road.” That is how he must have been feeling;...

2. Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment (English. Преступление и наказание). Part five. Chapter Two

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Часть текста: felt obliged to honour the memory of the deceased "suitably," that all the lodgers, and still more Amalia Ivanovna, might know "that he was in no way their inferior, and perhaps very much their superior," and that no one had the right "to turn up his nose at him." Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar "poor man's pride," which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony, simply in order to do "like other people," and not to "be looked down upon." It is very probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by every one, to show those "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night. Even the poorest and most broken-spirited people are sometimes liable to these paroxysms of pride and vanity which take the form of an irresistible nervous craving. And Katerina Ivanovna was not broken-spirited; she might have been killed by circumstance, but her spirit could not have been broken, that is, she could not have been intimidated, her will could not be crushed. Moreover Sonia had said with good reason that her mind was unhinged. She could not be said to be insane, but for a year past she had been so harassed that her mind might well be overstrained. The later stages of consumption are apt, doctors tell us, to affect the intellect. There was no great variety of wines, nor was there ...

3. Dostoevsky. Crimen y castigo (Spanish. Преступление и наказание). Quinta parte. Capitulo II

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Часть текста: creía obligada a honrar convenientemente la memoria del difunto, a fin de demostrar a todos los inquilinos, y sobre todo a Amalia Ivanovna, que él valía tanto como ellos, si no más, y que ninguno tenía derecho a adoptar un aire de superioridad al compararse con él. Acaso aquel proceder obedecía a ese orgullo que en determinadas circunstancias, y especialmente en las ceremonias públicas ineludibles para todas las clases sociales, impulsa a los pobres a realizar un supremo esfuerzo y sacrificar sus últimos recursos solamente para hacer las cosas tan bien como los demás y no dar pábulo a comadreos. También podía ser que Catalina Ivanovna, en aquellos momentos en que su soledad y su infortunio eran mayores, experimentara el deseo de demostrar a aquella "pobre gente" que ella, como hija de un coronel y persona educada en una noble y aristocrática mansión, no sólo sabía vivir y recibir, sino que no había nacido para barrer ni para lavar por las noches la ropa de sus hijos. Estos arrebatos de orgullo y vanidad se apoderan a veces de las más míseras criaturas y cobran la forma de una necesidad furiosa e irresistible. Por otra parte, Catalina Ivanovna no era de esas personas que se aturden ante la desgracia. Los reveses de fortuna podían abrumarla, pero no abatir su moral ni anular su voluntad. Tampoco hay que olvidar que Sonetchka afirmaba, y no sin razón, que no estaba del todo cuerda. Esto no era cosa probada, pero últimamente, en el curso de todo un año, su pobre cabeza había tenido que soportar pruebas especialmente rudas. En fin, también hay que tener en cuenta que, según los médicos, la tisis, en los períodos avanzados de su evolución, perturba las...

4. Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov (English. Братья Карамазовы). Part III. Book VII. Alyosha. Chapter 2.A Critical Moment

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Часть текста: so much. To Father Paissy's sorrowful question, "Are you too with those of little faith?" I could, of course, confidently answer for Alyosha, "No, he is not with those of little faith. Quite the contrary." Indeed, all his trouble came from the fact that he was of great faith. But still the trouble was there and was so agonising that even long afterwards Alyosha thought of that sorrowful day as one of the bitterest and most fatal days of his life. If the question is asked: "Could all his grief and disturbance have been only due to the fact that his elder's body had shown signs of premature decomposition instead of at once performing miracles?" I must answer without beating about the bush, "Yes, it certainly was." I would only beg the reader not to be in too great a hurry to laugh at my young hero's pure heart. I am far from intending to apologise for him or to justify his innocent faith on the ground of his youth, or the little progress he had made in his studies, or any such reason. I must declare, on the contrary, that I have genuine respect for the qualities of his heart. No doubt a youth who received impressions cautiously, whose love was lukewarm, and whose mind was too prudent for his age and so of little value, such a young man might, I admit, have avoided what happened to my hero. But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved. And this is even truer in youth, for a young man who is always sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth -- that's my opinion! "But," reasonable people will exclaim perhaps, "every young man cannot believe in such a superstition and your hero is no model for others." To this I reply again, "Yes! my hero had faith, a faith holy and ...

5. Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment (English. Преступление и наказание). Part two. Chapter Six

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Часть текста: Part two. Chapter Six Chapter Six BUT AS SOON as she went out, he got up, latched the door, undid the parcel which Razumihin had brought in that evening and had tied up again and began dressing. Strange to say, he seemed immediately to have become perfectly calm; not a trace of his recent delirium nor of the panic fear that had haunted him of late. It was the first moment of a strange sudden calm. His movements were precise and definite; a firm purpose was evident in them. "To-day, to-day," he muttered to himself. He understood that he was still weak, but his intense spiritual concentration gave him strength and self-confidence. He hoped, moreover, that he would not fall down in the street. When he had dressed in entirely new clothes, he looked at the money lying on the table, and after a moment's thought put it in his pocket. It was twenty-five roubles. He took also all the copper change from the ten roubles spent by Razumihin on the clothes. Then he softly unlatched the door, went out, slipped downstairs and glanced in at the open kitchen door. Nastasya was standing with her back to him, blowing up the landlady's samovar. She heard nothing. Who would have dreamed of his going out, indeed? A minute later he was in the street. It was nearly eight o'clock, the sun was setting. It was as stifling as before, but he eagerly drank in the stinking, dusty town air. His head felt rather dizzy; a sort of savage energy gleamed suddenly in his feverish eyes and his wasted, pale and yellow face. He did not know and did not think where he was going, he had one thought only "that all this must be ended to-day, once for all, immediately; that he would not return home without it, because he would not go on living like that." How, with what to make an end? He had not an idea about it, he did not even want to think of it. He drove away thought; thought tortured him. All he knew, all...

6. Dostoevsky. The Possessed (English. Бесы). Part III. Chapter IV. The last resolution

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Часть текста: was always considered among us as a “chatterbox of a student with a screw loose,” but now he talked of Yulia Mihailovna, and in the general excitement the theme was an enthralling one. As one who had recently been her intimate and confidential friend, he disclosed many new and unexpected details concerning her; incidentally (and of course unguardedly) he repeated some of her own remarks about persons known to all in the town, and thereby piqued their vanity. He dropped it all in a vague and rambling way, like a man free from guile driven by his sense of honour to the painful necessity of clearing up a perfect mountain of misunderstandings, and so simple-hearted that he hardly knew where to begin and where to leave off. He let slip in a rather unguarded way, too, that Yulia Mihailovna knew the whole secret of Stavrogin and that she had been at the bottom of the whole intrigue. She had taken him in too, for he, Pyotr Stepanovitch, had also been in love with this unhappy Liza, yet he had been so hoodwinked that he had...

7. Dostoevsky. The Insulted and Injured (English. Униженные и оскорбленные). Part II. Chapter V

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Часть текста: it. "Come, Masloboev,, old boy, you're talking nonsense!" I interrupted. "Generals look very different from me even if they are literary ones, and besides, let me tell you, I certainly do remember having met you twice in the street. But you obviously. avoided me. And why should I go up to a man if I see he's trying to avoid me? And do you know what I believe? If you weren't drunk you wouldn't have called to me even now. That's true, isn't it? Well, how are you? I'm very, very glad to have met you, my boy." "Really? And I'm not compromising you by my. . . 'unconventional' appearance? But there's no need to ask that. It's not a great matter; I always remember what a jolly chap you were, old Vanya. Do you remember you took a thrashing for me? You held your tongue and didn't give me away, and, instead of being grateful, I jeered at you for a week afterwards. You're a blessed innocent! Glad to see you, my dear soul!" (We kissed each other.) "How many years I've been pining in solitude - 'From morn till night, from dark till light but I've not forgotten old times. They're not easy to forget. But what have you been doing, what have you been doing?" "I? Why, I'm pining in solitude, too." He gave me a long look, full of the deep feeling of a man slightly inebriated; though he was a very good-natured fellow at...

8. Dostoevsky. Los hermanos Karamazov (Spanish. Братья Карамазовы). Tercera parte. Libro VII. Aliocha. Capitulo II. El momento decisivo

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Часть текста: tristemente, a Aliocha -"Te has unido a los hombres de poca fe?"-, yo podría contestar sin temor a equivocarme: "No, no se ha unido a ellos. " Era precisamente todo lo contrario: el trastorno intimo que se había apoderado en él procedia de la pureza y el fervor de su fe. Sin embargo, el trastorno existía, y era tan cruel, que mucho tiempo después Aliocha consideraba aún aquella jornada como una de las más amargas y funestas de su vida. Si me preguntaran: "Es posible que experimentara tanta angustia y turbación únicamente porque el cuerpo de su starets , en vez de producir curaciones, se había descompuesto con tanta rapidez?", mi respuesta sería inmediata. "Sí, eso fue. " Ruego al lector que no se precipite a reirse de la simplicidad de nuestro joven. No solamente no considero que haya que pedir perdón por la ingenuidad de su fe, debida a su juventud, a los...

9. Dostoevsky. Crimen y castigo (Spanish. Преступление и наказание). Sexta parte. Capitulo VI

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Часть текста: construcción que ostentaba el nombre de Vauxhall, pero que no era más que una taberna, donde también podía tomarse té. En el jardín había igualmente varios veladores verdes con sillas. Un coro de malos cantantes y un payaso de nariz roja completamente borracho y extraordinariamente triste se encargaban de distraer al público. Los empleadillos se encontraron con varios colegas y empezaron a reñir con ellos. Se escogió como árbitro a Svidrigailof. Éste estuvo un cuarto de hora tratando de averiguar el motivo del pleito; pero todos gritaban a la vez y no había medio de entenderse. Lo único que comprendió fue que uno de ellos había cometido un robo y vendido el objeto robado a un judío que había llegado oportuna y casualmente, hecho lo cual se negaba a repartirse con sus compañeros el producto de la operación. Al fin se descubrió que el objeto robado era una cucharilla de plata perteneciente al Vauxhall. Los empleados del...

10. Dostoevsky. The Insulted and Injured (English. Униженные и оскорбленные). Part III. Chapter VI

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Часть текста: (English. Униженные и оскорбленные). Part III. Chapter VI CHAPTER VI AT seven o'clock punctually I was at Masloboev's. He greeted me with loud exclamations and open arms. He was, of course, half drunk. But what stuck me most was the extraordinary preparation that had been made for my visit. It was evident that I was expected. A pretty brass samovar was boiling on a little round table covered with a handsome and expensive tablecloth. The tea-table glittered with crystal, silver and china. On another table, which was covered with a tablecloth of a different kind, but no less gorgeous, stood plates of excellent sweets, Kiev preserves both dried and liquid, fruit-paste, jelly, French preserves, oranges, apples, and three or four sorts of nuts; in fact, a regular fruit-shop. On a third table, covered with a snow-white cloth, there were savouries of different sorts - caviar, cheese, a pie, sausage, smoked ham, fish and a row of fine glass decanters containing spirits of many sorts, and of the most attractive colours - green, ruby, brown and gold. Finally on a little table on one side - also covered with a white cloth - there were two bottles ...

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