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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.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
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mankind
love
individuals
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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intelligent-action
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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purpose-of-life
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
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greed
needs
materialism
selfishness
vice
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
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suffering
raskolnikov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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self-respect
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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stupidity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
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memories
fyodor-dostoyevsky
white-nights
dreamer
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
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children
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment -- still I should want to live. Having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn away from it till I had drained it! At thirty t..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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?
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stupidity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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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raskolnikov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished myself and shot myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to love that one, and even on the night I parted from him I loved him perhaps more poignantly than ever. We can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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suffering
raskolnikov
sonia
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
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illness
reason
notes-from-the-underground
fyodor-dostoyevsky
disease
intellect
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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2e87b1c
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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. The resulting picture is sometimes monstrous, but the setting and the whole process of the presentation sometimes happen to be so probable, and with details so subtle, unexpected, yet artistically consistent with the whole fullness of the picture, that even the dreamer himself would be unable to invent them in reality, t..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
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discovery
hippolyte
detachment
clinging
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not e..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!
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mankind
destruction-of-nature
creation
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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.
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mankind
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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415fce3
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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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953dace
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
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fiction
russian-literature
russian
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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b72a509
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Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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4bfc998
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Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |