Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'll pick you out fellows so keen they'll not shrink from shooting, and be grateful for the honour of a job, too. Well, and there will be an upheaval! There's going to be such an upset as the world has never seen before. . . . Russia will be overwhelmed with darkness, the earth will w...

“We shall say that he is 'in hiding,'”

We'll set a legend going better than the Skoptsis'.

a new force at work!

What can Socialism do: it's destroyed the old forces but hasn't brought in any new.. But in this we have a force, and what a force! Incredible. We only need one lever to lift up the earth.

we shall consider how to build up an edifice of stone. For the first time! We are going to build it, we, and only we!”

“Madness,”

Those Madman years

Bosenthal.” “Wasn't it Blum?”

Ullysses?

Voild

"I have been waiting twenty years for this

edition of Herzen, the bound volume of The Sell, four

do you belong to some secret society or not?” And on this, to my amazement, he was not quite certain whether he was or was not a member of some secret society.

“When with one's whole heart one is an adherent of progress and . . . who can answer it? You may suppose you don't belong, and suddenly it turns out that you do belong to some thing.”

Herd mentality

red silk handkerchief

twenty years,

“Manifestoes!”

ten were left here,”

eight

two.”

but secretly she will be pleased. . . . I shall give her a weapon against me for the rest of my life. Oh, it's all over with me!

I am a citizen and a man, not a worthless chip.

wear a rosette of crimson and white ribbon on the left shoulder.

the seditious manifestoes

the authors of such literature write very obscurely in spite of the boldness of their style.

the governor had thoroughly made up his mind that there were political manifestoes, and that Shpigulins' factory hands were being incited to a Socialist rising,

for a woman is incapable of complete remorse

Yulia Mihailovna's method was that of contemptuous silence, for one hour, two, a whole day. and almost for three days and nights — silence whatever happened, whatever he said, whatever he

“Our marriage has been nothing but your proving to me all the time, every hour, that I am a nonentity, a fool, and even a rascal, and I have been all the time, every hour, forced in a degrading way to prove to you that I am not a nonentity, not a fool at all, and that I impress every one with my honourable character. Isn't that degrading for both sides?”

looked with a sinister gaze at the laughing lady.

The riot was as real to him as the prison carts were to

Don Quoixte

Karmazinov particularly did much to aggravate this. (He had taken part in the expedition at Yulia Mihailovna's special request, and in that way had, incidentally, paid his visit to Varvara Petrovna, and she was so poor-spirited as to be perfectly delighted at it.)

Yulia Mihailovna went on ignoring him.

Karmazinov had consented to increase the subscriptions to the fund by reading his Merci in the costume of the governesses of the district;

Karmazinov finally consented to read Herd

Herd? merci?

they had for that day, even the family linen, even the sheets, and possibly the mattresses, to the Jews, who had been settling in our town in great numbers during the previous two years and who became more and more numerous as time went on. Almost

madman. With a broad, triumphant smile, full of boundless self-confidence, he looked round at the agitated hall and he seemed to be delighted at the disorder. He was not in the least disconcerted at having to speak in such an uproar, on the contrary, he was obviously delighted. This was so obvious that it attracted attention at once.

Churchill

madman. With a broad, triumphant smile, full of boundless self-confidence, he looked round at the agitated hall and he seemed to be delighted at the disorder. He was not in the least disconcerted at having to speak in such an uproar, on the contrary, he was obviously delighted. This was so obvious that it attracted attention at once.

Churchill

eaten up all the capital and have covered Russia as with a spider's web, so that in another fifteen years one will perhaps get somewhere.

In the law courts judgments are as wise as Solomon's,

Alas, the poor woman was so anxious to be deceived again!

first only by encouraging her in her dreams of influence in society and in the ministry, by entering into her plans, by inventing them for her, and working upon her with the grossest flattery. He had got her completely into his toils and had become as necessary to her as the air she breathed. Seeing me, she cried, with flashing eyes:

Feminism

“Why, you are lying to my face!” “Of course it's easy for you to say that. You need a victim to vent your wrath on.

Psychopath behavior

Stavrogin,

upside down of common sense by the menacing non-Petersburg gazette. As Lyamshin was the only one who could walk standing on his head, he had undertaken to represent the editor with the cudgel.

another bomb exploded exactly as in the afternoon. “Fire! All the riverside quarter is on fire!”

A real conflagration is a very different matter. Then the horror and a certain sense of personal danger, together with the exhilarating effect of a fire at night,

“It's all incendiarism! It's nihilism! If anything is burning, it's nihilism!”

He pulled out of his pocket Lebyadkin's anonymous letter to Lembke and handed it to Liputin. The latter read it, was evidently surprised, and passed it thoughtfully to his neighbour; the letter quickly went the round.

Russia covered with an endless network of knots. Each of these centres of activity, proselytising and ramifying endlessly, aims by systematic denunciation to injure the prestige of local authority, to reduce the villages to confusion, to spread cynicism and scandals, together with complete disbelief in everything and an eagerness for something better, and finally, by means of fires, as a pre-eminently national method, to reduce the country at a given moment, if need be, to desperation. Are those your words which I tried to remember accurately? Is that the programme you gave us as the authorised representative of the central committee, which is to this day utterly unknown to us and almost like a myth?”

Propaganda...spying

“it's Shatov! I believe you all know now that Shatov in his time was one of the society.

He is the one that orchestrated the timing....and really set up everyone.

Fourier

French socialist Charles Fourier (died 1837).