Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

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• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

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• Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'

  

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• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

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• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

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• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

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• Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Live
  • Children
  • Love