Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what life has to offer … That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.
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I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
