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• We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Book, Sight, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.11, Vintage

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• My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Healing, Thinking, Sick

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• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Independent, Men, Choices

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• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Logic, Reason

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• Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Over You, Watches, Looks

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, First Avenue Editions

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• To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Friendship, True Love, Love You

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• Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kindness, Compassion, Law

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Waiting, Gumption, Courses

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• My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Done, Truth Is

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• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Deep Thought

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

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• Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics

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• I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forever, Soul, Mind

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• At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Strong, Humility, Humble

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Love You, What Matters

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Gone, World

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Keys

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Stupid, Punishment, Asking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Worry

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.405, Bantam Classics

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• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupidity, Honest, Clarity

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• I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Disease, Consciousness, Genuine

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• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Way, Facts

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• Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Deep Thought, Achieve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.335, Northwestern University Press

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Deep Thought, Study

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• They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, World, Mass

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Deep Thought, He Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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