Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky(page 2)

Katerina Ivanovna and she laid thirty roubles on the table
before her in silence. She did not utter a word, she did not
even look at her, she simply picked up our big green drap
de dames shawl (we have a shawl, made of drap de dames),
put it over her head and face and lay down on the bed
with her face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her
body kept shuddering…. And I went on lying there, just
as before…. And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina
Ivanovna, in the same silence go up to Sonia’s little bed;
she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia’s feet,
and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in
each other’s arms … together, together … yes … and I …
lay drunk.’
Marmeladov stopped short, as though his voice had
failed him. Then he hurriedly filled his glass, drank, and
cleared his throat.
‘Since then, sir,’ he went on after a brief pause—‘Since
then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through
information given by evil- intentioned persons—in all
which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext
that she had been treated with want of respect—since then
my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a
yellow ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky(page 1)

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TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
A few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the
English reader to understand his work.
Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were
very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so
poor that they lived with their five children in only two
rooms. The father and mother spent their evenings in
reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a
serious character.
Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came
out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school
of Engineering. There he had already begun his first work,
‘Poor Folk.’
This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his
review and was received with acclamations. The shy,
unknown youth found himself instantly something of a
celebrity.

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche(page 6)

Beyond Good and Evil
nation understand one another better than those belonging to different nations, even when they use the same language; or rather, when people have lived long together under similar conditions (of climate, soil, danger, requirement, toil) there ORIGINATES therefrom an entity that ‘understands itself’—namely, a nation. In all souls a like number of frequently recurring experiences have gained the upper hand over those occurring more rarely: about these matters people understand one another rapidly and always more rapidly—the history of language is the history of a process of abbreviation; on the basis of this quick comprehension people always unite closer and closer. The greater the danger, the greater is the need of agreeing quickly and readily about what is necessary; not to misunderstand one another in danger—that is what cannot at all be dispensed with in intercourse. Also in all loves and friendships one has the experience that nothing of the kind continues when the discovery has been made that in using the same words, one of the two parties has feelings, thoughts, intuitions, wishes, or fears different from those of the other. (The fear of the ‘eternal misunderstanding": that is the good genius which so often keeps persons of different sexes from too hasty attachments, to which sense and heart prompt them—and 273 of 301
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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche(page 5)

Beyond Good and Evil
too ‘short’ for all fundamental questions of life, future as well as present, and will be unable to descend into ANY of the depths. On the other hand, a man who has depth of spirit as well as of desires, and has also the depth of benevolence which is capable of severity and harshness, and easily confounded with them, can only think of woman as ORIENTALS do: he must conceive of her as a possession, as confinable property, as a being predestined for service and accomplishing her mission therein—he must take his stand in this matter upon the immense rationality of Asia, upon the superiority of the instinct of Asia, as the Greeks did formerly; those best heirs and scholars of Asia—who, as is well known, with their INCREASING culture and amplitude of power, from Homer to the time of Pericles, became gradually STRICTER towards woman, in short, more Oriental. HOW necessary, HOW logical, even HOW humanely desirable this was, let us consider for ourselves!
239. The weaker sex has in no previous age been treated with so much respect by men as at present—this belongs to the tendency and fundamental taste of democracy, in the same way as disrespectfulness to old age—what wonder is it that abuse should be immediately made of this respect? They want more, they learn to make
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