“These men of yours…”
January 17, 2010 by transcendingchaos
“These men of yours never loved the people, never suffered for them or sacrificed anything for them, no matter what they themselves imagined for their own good pleasure! …. One cannot love what ones does not know, and they understood nothing about the Russian people. … And those who have no people, have no God! You may be sure that all those who cease to understand their people and lose their connection with them, at once, in the same measure, also lose the faith of their fathers, and become either atheists or indifferent. … That is why all of you, and all of us now, are either vile atheists or indifferent, depraved trash, and nothing more!”
– Shatov, Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky is so great. I started Demons a few months ago and now I’m coming back to it.
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