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March 16, 2007
only to live!
Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death , that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet-and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him-and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity-it would be better to live so than to die right now! Only to live, to live, to live! To live no matter how-only to live!
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Posted by amin at March 16, 2007 6:58 PM