NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND & THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD

and that this conclusion is the final solution of all so-called virtues and duties and all such prejudices and fancies, then you have just to accept it, there is no help for it, for twice two is a law of mathematics. Just try refuting it

Why, of course, the laws of nature, the deductions of natural science, mathematics. As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it for a fact. When they prove to you that in reality one drop of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow-creatures

Those who know how to adapt themselves to conditions in Siberia almost always remain there; the abundant and richly flavoured fruit which they gather recompens

Those who know how to adapt themselves to conditions in Siberia almost always remain there; the abundant and richly flavoured fruit which they gather

by the high pay, the extra allowance for travelling expenses,

other in the cemetery. These places are, in fact, much more like good-sized villages o

town, the other in the cemetery. These places are, in fact, much more like good-sized village

town, the other in the cemetery. These places are, in fact, much more like good-sized villages o