Book: Petersburg slums

How to reach people to this shame, of Vice, debauchery and crime? As they descend upon the degree of the animal, of cattle, to blunting all human, all moral feelings, but sometimes even the physical sensations of suffering and pain? Why all so occurs? What reasons lead to such a life? Himself whether he or another is that the fault of all this? Blaming is easy, very easy - much easier than to think about it and to understand the cause, look for preceding "preparatory and predisposing" circumstances. But the fact of the matter: how to look at the fallen man: if he is himself to blame, and suffered in his disgrace and misfortune?

Daria librarian was a very ugly, awkward, negazione and painful to the proud. Ego with ambition could pocasts its distinguishing qualities... <...> With these two properties of her soul destiny, in addition, bestowed her is still very amorous and passionate nature. Unfortunately, Daria she is constantly in love in such a brilliant aristocratic young people that none of them paid her any attention. And ego Daria Davydovna was always waspleased. In Prince Shadursky for some reason she is not in love, but to marry him would be very not averse to acquiring a corresponding position in a big way.

What I want to believe, to believe so willingly!

When the human soul becomes concentrated too much despair and grief, they either lead to madness and suicide, or themselves dull - his own power and infinity, so that people finally stiffens somehow comes to an absolute indifference to everything and especially to his own person: "Wait for nothing, no hope. Whatever happens, I don't care! Torture - the torture, the death, that's death!" And such a condition, par excellence, is the result of the greatest bitterness on the fate of the people, the result of wasted struggle and energy.

There are two kinds of love - and love is sincere, good and honest. One likes something and because of something another - for nothing and for no reason. The love that arises because of consciousness of any moral virtues of man, not coming directly from the heart; it is initially logically develops the mental consciousness and the head moves deliberately in a sense. The other originates directly in the heart, without any interference of the head, which begins to work and then inventing all sorts of virtues and moral perfection for the chosen subject. This is "the desire - born of disease", in the apt words of the poet. But ask first, this last love: what does she like? and you will never get a different answer, as only the following: love, because you can. And it will be the only sincere answer, because such love itself is the purpose and reason itself is an excuse. This love is purely physical. It is a fact and to deny it is impossible, as impossible and to find a logically correct reasons for what and why she loves.

Looks, you know, there are different and contradictory opinion, is even in the British Parliament happens.

No wonder we have a saying in the country was formed: "From Sumy Yes from prison do not promise" - a proverb, a bitter and a terrible sense of having: she is a lost fruit of poverty, the bitter needs of poverty, but even more than that - a desperate fruit of injustice and tyranny.

Strange fate is with people: she can't give them full happiness and always put in a human life is something eternal the thorn, which has the purpose to poison me, is a source of human pleasures.