We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Нам вот всё представляется вечность как идея, которую понять нельзя, что-то огромное, огромное! Да почему же непременно огромное? И вдруг, вместо всего этого, представьте себе, будет там одна комнатка, эдак вроде деревенской бани, закоптелая, а по всем углам пауки, и вот и вся вечность.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Eternity The afterlife

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Svidrigaïlov

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Crime and Punishment

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, montly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep,
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

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1866 1860s 19th century
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Gladstone, William E. Speech in the House of Commons. 27 April 1866. Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Speech.

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When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

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Time
1899 1890s 19th century
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Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

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