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But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
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Everything passes, only truth remains.
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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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Trifles, trifles are what matter!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoevsky