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• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Brain, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

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• Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Stupid, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.116, Modern Library

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• There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ideas, Easier, Harder

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Law, Coward

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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Evil, Normal

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877.

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• Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Opinion, Creation

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.214, Vintage

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• The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Purpose, He Man

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• People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, People, Well Known

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We are all happy if we but knew it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happy Love, Ifs

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• To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ends, Unlimited, Despotism

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• We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Eternity, Conception

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.389, Modern Library

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• You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mysterious, Ache

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• Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Differences, Waiting

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

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heaven, Life Is, Embrace

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.348, e-artnow

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• Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adversity, Men, Suffering

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• I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

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• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Want

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• In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faith, Miracle, Realist

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• To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hope, Deep Thought, Hoping For The Best

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• The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Deep Thought

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

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