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

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  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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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.

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  Dream, Heart, Desire

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

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• Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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  Tails, Speak

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.289, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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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.

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  Memories, Home, Years

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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!

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  Men, Soul, Solitude

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

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• Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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  Beauty, Heart, Fighting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Causes

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• One can fall in love and still hate.

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  Falling In Love, Hate, Fall

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• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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• It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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  Grief, Joy, Bereavement

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, First Avenue Editions

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• A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

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  Beast, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

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  Profound, Ridiculous, Left

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

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• Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

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  Cutting, Reality, Doe

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• The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

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  Two, Perspective, Formulas

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

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  Men, Race, Effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.439, Bantam Classics

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• I'm drunk but truthful.

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  Drunk, Truthful

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• What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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  Reality, People, Tragedy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

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  Religious, Atheist, Talking

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• Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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  Men, Looks, Manage

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.481, Random House

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• People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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  Punishment, Ideas, Numbers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

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  Love, Dream, Persistence

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• One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Laughing, Good Man

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