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• Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Deep Thought

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23), 1864.

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• Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Relationship, Dream, Action

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880.

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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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• I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Peace, Long, Tea

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.189, Youcanprint

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• ... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Needs, Position

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment”, p.574, First Avenue Editions

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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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• One can fall in love and still hate.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Fall

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• Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forgiving

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.523, Vintage

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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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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• 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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• But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Laughing

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Waiting, Gumption, Courses

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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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• Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Solitude

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

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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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• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Heart, Infinite

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing

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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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• 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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• An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Longing, Reason, Hysterical

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• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Home, Years

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Deep Thought, Study

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• Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Heart, Desire

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

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