The third installment of tweets from novels: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s #Demons.
"well, he did very little as a scholar, nothing at all, apparently. But w scholars here in Russia, that is ever and always the case" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) September 29, 2015
"This thesis cleverly and painfully needled the Slavophils of the day and instantly gained him numerous and infuriates enemies." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) September 29, 2015
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"Never before had she seen such writers. They were impossibly vain, but quite openly so, as if thereby fulfilling a duty." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) September 29, 2015
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"He only knew how to twirl his moustaches, drink, and spout the most uncouth nonsense imaginable." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) September 29, 2015
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"All men of genius and progress in Russia were, are and will always be card players and drunkards." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 8, 2015
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Until that day he had remained certain of 1 thing…[that] he had charms over her…not only…as a famous scholar, but as a handsome man #D
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 8, 2015
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"For 20 years this conviction had been rooted in him and of all his convictions it was perhaps the hardest to part with." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 8, 2015
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He's light-minded, a maunderer, cruel, an egoist, w base habits, but you will appreciate him..there are much worse #Demons #describeascholar
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 8, 2015
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"Three of us went to the American States on an emigrant steamer, 'in order to try the life of the American worker ourself…" 1/2 #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 13, 2015
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"…and thus by personal experience to test on ourselves the condition of man in his hardest social position." 2/2 #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 13, 2015
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"We got hire there to work for an exploiter…[who] cheated us when he paid us off…[and] also beat us there, more than once." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 13, 2015
"There are people for whom clean linen is even indecent, sir." -Liputin #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 20, 2015
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"He was not drunk, but was in the heavy, leaden, foggy state of a man who wakes up after many days of drinking." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 20, 2015
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"It seemed you would only have to shake him a couple of times by the shoulder and he would immediately become drunk again." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) October 20, 2015
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"Not one nation has ever set itself up on the principles of science and reason; …unless perhaps for a moment, out of foolishness" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 5, 2015
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Nations are formed & moved by another ruling & dominating force…the unquenchable desire to get to the end, while…denying the end #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 5, 2015
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"The aim of all movements of nations….is solely the seeking for God, its own God, …and faith in him as the only true God." #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 5, 2015
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a sign of a nation's extinction (is) when there (are) gods in common. When there are gods in common, they die…with the nations themselves
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 5, 2015
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"Is it true that the Marquis de Sade could take lessons from you?" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 5, 2015
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"I want to bequeath my skeleton to the academy, on condition that a label be pasted to its forehead reading 'Repentant Freethinker'" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 6, 2015
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"You take advantage of my kindness to make caustic remarks and play some sort of bourru bienfaisant" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 10, 2015
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"Tea was poured by a thirty-year-old maiden lady, the hostess' sister, browless and pale-haired, a silent and venomous being" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 24, 2015
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"This police officer–an ecstatically administrative person V.I. Filibusterov–was still a newcomer to our town…" 1/2 #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
But he had already distinguished himself and been noised abroad for his boundless zeal…and an innate sobriety 2/2 #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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I am speaking only of scum…which exists in every society, [and] rises to the surface in any transitional time #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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The whole perplexity lies in just what is more beautiful: Shakespeare or boots, Raphael or petroleum? #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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We alone shall remain, having destined…to assume power. We shall rally the smart ones to ourselves, & ride on the backs of fools. #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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This generation must be re-educated to make it worthy of freedom #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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"The crew must remain a crew and obey, otherwise I'll…What trash these people are, though!" #Demons
— Joshua Nudell (@jpnudell) November 27, 2015
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Previously in this series, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life.
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