Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote: "Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God."

And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more ...
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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he...
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Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
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Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his...
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. St...
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a ...
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside ...
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as ...
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it...
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
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I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the le...
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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive...
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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He ...
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Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by...
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhoo...
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, s...
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a ...
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe...
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits h...
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Realists do not fear the results of their study.
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Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God'...
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far be...
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarse...
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image...
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If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of...
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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re bot...
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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, ...
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You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment.
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The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or ...
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
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Woe to the man who offends a small child!
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I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
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My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like a...
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It was more difficult not to
understand than to understand.
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Braćo, ne bojte se grehova ljudskih, volite čoveka i u grehu njegovom, jer kad ko voli čoveka gre...
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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that tr...
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Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be broth...
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are ...
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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why m...
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being auto...
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great...
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The Russian soul is a dark place.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, genero...
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by ...
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the trut...
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
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Do you think, you who sold it, that this bottom of yours has been sweet to me? Affliction, I sought ...
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving ma...
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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to p...
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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marry...
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't ...
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Beauty will save the world
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Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feelin...
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was u...
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain...
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It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And no...
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Then this God does exist according to you?"
"He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there i...
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The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, a...
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Love life more than the meaning of it?
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The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make pl...
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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that...
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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and li...
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Kto twierdzi że kocha w ogóle całą ludzkość, kocha prawie zawsze tylko siebie
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human id...
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his he...
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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays a...
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It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowi...
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I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equ...
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He...
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Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he doe...
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Beauty will save the world.
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The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and witho...
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
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You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ...
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Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he...
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Without God all things are permitted.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. W...
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God knows what is in me in place of me.
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult...
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and var...
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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, ...
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - th...
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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few...
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extrem...
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What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking ...
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" M...
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there...
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling ...
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all t...
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
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I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring ...
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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui...
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One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; h...
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Man does not live by bread alone.
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Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal ...
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Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch...
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of dou...
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Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every rig...
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When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that de...
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun...
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting the...
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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these...
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I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and...
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Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one...
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
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The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. ...
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then sudde...
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I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my...
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considere...
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For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is ...
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In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for h...
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love
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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted
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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of lo...
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled
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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you we...
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If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them.
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Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a...
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But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at ...
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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with th...
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The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end - like human life, like ...
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It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suff...
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the...
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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
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Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty...
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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of etern...
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..., and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means o...
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Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is...
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You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ...
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At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and soli...
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Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques...
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There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appea...
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There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediate...
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Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
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Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed dow...
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And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God s...
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It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
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Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destro...
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us
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Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very of...
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Отцы и учители, мыслю: "что есть ад?" Рассуждаю
так: "С...
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure?

Answer: Of himself.

Wel...
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It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and forme...
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Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they ...
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Life [had] replaced logic.
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It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual...
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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