[The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky]@TWC D-Link bookThe Possessed CHAPTER VI 113/117
You know, amongst us socialism spreads principally through sentimentalism.
But the trouble is these lieutenants who bite; sometimes you put your foot in it.
Then come the out-and-out rogues; well, they are a good sort, if you like, and sometimes very useful; but they waste a lot of one's time, they want incessant looking after.
And the most important force of all--the cement that holds everything together--is their being ashamed of having an opinion of their own.
That is a force! And whose work is it, whose precious achievement is it, that not one idea of their own is left in their heads! They think originality a disgrace." "If so, why do you take so much trouble ?" "Why, if people lie simply gaping at every one, how can you resist annexing them? Can you seriously refuse to believe in the possibility of success? Yes, you have the faith, but one wants will.
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