Lev Shestov Quotes

Even Pushkin, Who Could Understand Everything, Did Not Grasp The Real Significance Of Dead Souls. He Thought That The Author Was Grieving For Russia, Ignorant, Savage, And Outdistanced By The Other Nations. But It Is Not Only In Russia That Gogol Discovers "dead Souls." All Men, Great And Small, Seem To Him Lunatics, Lifeless, Automata Which Obediently And Mechanically Carry Out Commandments Imposed On Them From Without. They Eat, They Drink, They Sin, They Multiply; With Stammering Tongue They Pronounce Meaningless Words. No Trace Of Free Will, No Sparkle Of Understanding, Not The Slightest Wish To Awake From Their Thousand-year Sleep.

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