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You mustn't ask too much of human endurance, one must be merciful.
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Being in love doesn't mean loving.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?"
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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
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suffering
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I don't even know what I'm writing, I have no idea, I don't know anything, and I'm not reading over it, and I'm not correcting my style, and I'm writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you... My precious, my darling, my dearest!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I'm drunk but truthful.
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truthfulness
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
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dignity
equality
sharing
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Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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lm 'stT` 'n 'SbH 'y shy, lm 'stT` 'n 'SbH Ht~ shryr. wl khbyth wl Tyb, wl dnyy' wl shryf, l bTl, wl Hshr@, w'n lywm fy hdh lrkn lSGyr, 'khtm Hyty, mHwl 'n wsy nfsy b`z l Ty'l fyh, qy'l 'n lrjl ldhky l yflH qT fy 'n ySbH shyy', w'n lGby wHdh ySl l~ dhlk
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. It's everything, everything, Whoever learns will at once immediately become happy, that same moment... "And when did you find out that you were so happy?" "Last week, on Tuesday, no, Wednesday, because it was Wednesday by then, in the night." "And what was the occasion?" "I don't remember, just so; I was pacing the room...it makes no difference. I stopped my clock, it ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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lns lTybwn l yntZrwn 'n yuHsn 'Hd lyhm Ht~ yHsnw lyh, nhm yHbwn mn tlq 'nfshm khdm@ mn hm f~ Hj@ l~ hdhh lkhdm@.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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n`m nn nstTy` `nd llzwm 'n nkhnq Ht~ Hssn l'khlqy! nn nstTy` `nd llzwm 'n nHml l~ lswq kl shy fnby`h fyh: lHry@, lTm'nyn@ Ht~ rH@ lDmyr ! flttHTm Hytn dh kn fy dhlk s`d@ l'wly'k ldhyn nHbhm! w'kthr mn dhlk 'nn nlfq l'nfsn `ndy'dh sfsT@ khS@ fnryH Dmy'rn l~ Hyn, mswGyn '`mln qy'lyn l'nfsn: n m f`ln hw m kn ynbGy ln 'n nf`lh mdmn n`ml fy sbyl hdf nbyl wGy@ shryf@ !
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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nny 'Hb lnsny@ , Gyr 'n hnk shyy' fy nfsy ydhshny : klm zdd Hby llnsny@ jml@ wHd@ , nqS Hby llbshr frd , y 'shkhS lhm Hythm lkhS@
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حب
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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yS`b `l~ lmr 'n ytkhyl lmdh wkyf ySbH lnsn `shqan?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.
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ivan
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everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!
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home
life
people
somewhere
time
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The dreamer--if you want an exact definition--is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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.
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gluttony
good-deeds
hope
mercy
nobility-of-spirit
sin
values
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Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
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positivism
wisdom
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent..
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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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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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lw 'mkn 'n ytwSl kl mn (whdh mstHyl bHkm lTby`@ lnsny@) l~ lkshf `n jmy` 'fkrh, l~ lkshf `n jmy` hdhh l'fkr dwn 'n ykhsh~ 'n yTl` lns l `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'Hd, wl `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'`z 'Sdqy'h fHsb, bl 'yD `l~ m ykhsh~ 'n y`trf bh 'Hyn lnfsh, lkhrjt mn l'rD `fwn@ tblG mn lntn@ 'nh tkhnqn jmy`.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always remains something -- some sediment -- which cannot be expressed to others, though one wrote volumes and lectured upon it for five-and-thirty years. There is always a something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever, and you will die, perhaps, with..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That's the goal for everyone.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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m 'kthr lshrwr lt~ ymkn 'n ntfdh blSrH@.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |