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Perhaps there's something in it that passes our understanding. My dear, the real truth is always improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it.

you know real genuine sorrow will sometimes make even a phenomenally frivolous, unstable man solid and stoical for a short time at any rate what's more, even fools are by genuine sorrow turned into wise men, also only for a short time of course it is characteristic of sorrow.

"That little word 'why' has run through all universe from the first day of creation, and all nature cries every minute to its creator: "Why?" And for seven thousand years it has had no answer, and must Captain Lebyadkin alone answer? And is that justice, madam?"

"I haven't answered, why? You insist on an answer, why?" repeated the captain, winking.

Russian Atheism has never gone further than making a joke.Stepan Trofimovitch succeeded in reaching the deepest chords in his pupil's heart, and had aroused in him a first vague sensation of that eternal sacred yearning which some elect souls can never give up for cheap gratification when once they have tasted and known it.Nationalism has never existed among us except as a distraction for gentlemen's clubs, and Moscow ones at that.The one who has begun the quarrel and separated will be the first to fall ill and even die, perhaps, if the separation comes off. The two friends are always ready to fly at one another, and go on like that all their lives, and yet they cannot separate. An extremely political novel, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. Though titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. Demons is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.