Evidently The Merit Depends On The Result

Tell Me,' Asked Stas, 'what Is A Wicked Deed?' 'if Anyone Takes Away Kali's Cow,' He Answered After A Brief Reflection, 'that Then Is A Wicked Deed.' 'excellent!' Exclaimed Stas, 'and What Is A Good One?' This Time The Answer Came Without Any Reflection: 'if Kali Takes Away The Cow Of Somebody Else, That Is A Good Deed.' Stas Was Too Young To Perceive That Similar Views Of Evil And Good Deeds Were Enunciated In Europe Not Only By Politicians But By Whole Nations.

He Always Smiles, Even When Contemplating Nothing Good.

I Consider That In Dialectics I Am The Equal Of Socrates. As To Women, I Agree That Each Has Three Or Four Souls, But None Of Them A Reasoning One.

The Sky Is One Whole, The Water Another

Amid The Stillness Of The Night, In The Depths Of The Ravine, From The Direction In Which The Corpses Lay Suddenly Resounded A Kind Of Inhuman, Frightful Laughter In Which Quivered Despair, And Joy, And Cruelty, And Suffering, And Pain, And Sobbing, And Derision; The Heart-rending And Spasmodic Laughter Of The Insane Or Condemned.