The IdiotBrentanos, 1887 - 480 Seiten |
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Adelaida afraid agitation Aglaya Ivanovna alarmed Alexandra angry asked the prince au revoir began believe Bielokonski blushed Colia course cried the prince dear door dreadful Epanchin Evgenie Pavlovitch eyes face fact father feel felt Ferdishenko forgive Gania Gavrila Ardalionovitch gazed gentleman girl hand head hear heard heart Hippolyte idea idiot Ivan Petrovitch Keller knew lady Lebedeff Lef Nicolaievitch letter listened Lizabetha Prokofievna look marriage marry matter mean mind morning Moscow mother Muishkin Nastasia Philipovna never night Nina Alexandrovna nonsense observed once Parfen Pavlofsk perhaps Petersburg poor prince rose prince's Ptitsin question remarked remember replied Rogojin roubles Russian seemed Siberia silent smile sort speak stood strange suddenly sure Switzerland talk tell thing thought to-day told took Totski trembling turned understand Varia waiting whispered whole wish woman word wretched
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Seite 399 - ... he had expressed it, but evidently made a very favourable impression upon the assembled guests. As for his own impression on entering the room and taking his seat, he instantly remarked that the company was not in the least such as Aglaya's words had led him to fear, and as he had dreamed of —in nightmare form — all night. This was the first time in his life that he had seen a little corner of what was generally known by the terrible name of "society." He had long thirsted, for reasons of...
Seite 286 - But believe me, believe me, my simple-hearted friends, that in this highly moral verse, in this academical blessing to the world in general in the French language, is hidden the intensest gall and bitterness; but so well concealed is the venom, that I...
Seite 58 - He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions - one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered...
Seite 22 - The prince had grown animated as he spoke, and a tinge of colour suffused his pale face, though his way of talking was as quiet as ever. The servant followed his words with sympathetic interest. Clearly he was not at all anxious to bring the conversation to an end. Who knows? Perhaps he too was a man of imagination and with some capacity for thought.
Seite 58 - Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where ? " He thought he would decide this question once for all in these last three minutes.
Seite 410 - Oh, no; oh, no! Not to theology alone, I assure you! Why, Socialism is the progeny of Romanism and of the Romanistic spirit. It and its brother Atheism proceed from Despair in opposition to Catholicism. It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force. 'Don't dare to believe in God, don't dare to possess any individuality, any property!
Seite 172 - It's a garden knife, isn't it?" "Yes. Can't one cut pages with a garden knife?" "It's quite new." "Well, what of that? Can't I buy a new knife if I like?" shouted Rogojin furiously, his irritation growing with every word. The prince shuddered, and gazed fixedly at Parfen. Suddenly he burst out laughing. "Why, what an idea!
Seite 181 - Despair overmastered his soul; he would not go on, he would go back to his hotel; he even turned and went the other way; but a moment after he changed his mind again and went on in the old direction. Why, here he was on the Petersburg Side already, quite close to the house! Where was his "idea"? He was marching along without it now. Yes, his malady was coming back, it was clear enough; all this gloom and heaviness, all these "ideas/' were nothing more nor less than a fit coming on; perhaps he would...
Seite 412 - That is not my own expression; it is the expression of a merchant, one of the Old Believers, whom I once met while travelling. He did not say exactly these words. I think his expression was: 'Whoso forsakes his country forsakes his God.' "But let these thirsty Russian souls find, like Columbus' discoverers, a new world; let them find the Russian world, let them search and discover all the gold and treasure that lies hid in the bosom of their own land! Show them the restitution of lost humanity, in...
Seite 412 - ... barbarism. This has been the case up to now, and the longer matters go on as they are now proceeding, the more clear will be the truth of what I say; and I-" But at this moment something happened which put a most unexpected end to the orator's speech. All this heated tirade, this outflow of passionate words and ecstatic ideas which seemed to hustle and tumble over each other as they fell from his lips, bore evidence of some unusually disturbed mental condition in the young fellow who had "boiled...