Science which has become a great power in the last
century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to
us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the
learned of this world have nothing left of all that
was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and
overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is
marvelous.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
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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