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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all–embracing and universal.
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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
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Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. 'Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!' - that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
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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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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
Fyodor Dostoevsky