In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.

наслаждение отчаяния, но в отчаянии-то и бывают самые жгучие наслаждения, особенно когда уж очень сильно сознаешь безвыходность своего положения.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground

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Hopelessness and despair Pleasure

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Notes from the Underground

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Записки изъ подполья [Notes from Underground]. Epoch, Jan-Apr. 1864.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Notes from the Underground." Notes from the Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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