"[Oblomov:] "Picture a thief or a fallen woman or a cheated fool, if you like, but do not forget the rest of mankind. What about humanity, pray? Writers like yourself try to write only with the head. What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart? Why, the intellect needs love to fertilize it. Rather, stretch out your hand to the fallen and raise him, weep over him if he is lost beyond recall, but in no case make sport of him, for he is one to whom there should be extended only compassion. See in him yourself, and act accordingly. That done, I will read you, and bow my head before you." [...] "Give me man, and man alone" said Oblomov. "And, having given me him, do you try to love him.""
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"Oblomov", Part I Chapter II by I. Goncharov, translated by C. J. Hogarth
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Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (18 June 1812—27 September 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his critical realism novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869).
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