Nikolay Chernyshevsky quotes
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“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”
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“Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.”
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“In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.”
-- Nikolay ChernyshevskySource : Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz (1989). “What Is to Be Done?”, p.315, Cornell University Press
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)
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“Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.”
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“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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