“Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. … You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian.”
Dostojewski ist seiner Zeit noch um ein paar gewagte Schritte voraus. Man folgt ihm schwindelnd, bange, ungläubig; aber man folgt. Er lässt nicht locker, man muss folgen. … Man muss ihn einfach als Unikum nehmen. Er kommt von nirgendwo und gehört nirgendwo hin. Und dabei bleibt er doch stets Russe.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
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“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 4: The Sense of Form (pp. 24-25)
“Don't let the rules of man stop you from following God. When he gives it to you, go with it.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.