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Lev Shestov quotes: The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest?

The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest?

Lev Shestov quotes: One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.

Lev Shestov quotes: To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

Lev Shestov quotes: Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.

Lev Shestov quotes: ( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end.

( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end.

Lev Shestov quotes: More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.

More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.

Lev Shestov quotes: If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Lev Shestov quotes: Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).

Lev Shestov quotes: He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.

Lev Shestov quotes: It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

Lev Shestov quotes: Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.

Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.

Lev Shestov quotes: But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.