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Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
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suffering
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lqd t`lmw lkdhb w 'Hbwh w `rfw mwTn ljml fyh ,rbm bd' l'mr bryy'an `l~ sbyl lmzH 'w lGnj w ld`b@ w ll`b . w Hqyq@ l'mr 'n lbdy@ knt dhr@ , w 'n dhr@ lkdhb tlk tsrbt l~ qlwbhm w '`jbthm !
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nWa lmr ltbr'u nfshu wtshf~ Hyna y`yshu m` l'Tfl!
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Woe to the man who offends a small child!
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small-children
mistreatment
injury
children
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Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
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vanity
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n lfqr lys khTyy'@, wnm lkhTyy'@ 'n ykwn lmr Gny fyuhyn lakhryn
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To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, 'remembering that you, too, are a human being'.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Beauty is a riddle
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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One cannot love what one does not know.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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People who can speak well, speak briefly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
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memory
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in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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nWa 'kbra hn@in ymknu 'n tulHqh bnsnin fy `Srn wmin jnsn hy 'n tn`thu b'nhu mHrwmun mina l'Sl@i wlrd@i wlmwhbi lkhS@, w'n tqwla `nhu: nWhu rjlun `dy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But you are a great sinner, that's true," he added almost solemnly, and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.
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slave
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Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
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She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.
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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, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. (Zosima's advi..
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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was..."
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Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his bliss, as on a sea...and even then every man, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer libel, would play you some loathsome trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive rationality his fatal fantastic element.....
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
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Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!
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y lZlmk 'yth lqlwb l`zyz@ !
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'ry 'nh l yjwz lrjl 'n ytHdth `n mr'@ ly shkhS akhr. dhlk r'yy 'krrh w'Sr `lyh. 'n mn ttkhdhh njyan wtfDy lyh b'srrk ln yfhm 'bdan. lmlk nfsh ln yfhm. Hyn tHtrm mr'@ fl ttkhdh lk njyan tbwH lh b'mwrk. wdh knt tHtrm nfsk fl tf`l dhlk 'yDan.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.
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kids
youth
growing-up
teachers
teach
teaching
nostalgia
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And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted -- you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
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mankind
love
society
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You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you again, not only my days but my hours are numbered.
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yukhyWalu lyWa 'nWa lnsn, Hyna ydhmhu hlkun l sbyla l~ tHshyh, knhyri mnzlin fwqh mthlan, nm ysh`ru `ndy'dhin brGb@in l tqwmu fy 'n yq`da mGmDan `ynyh, wlyHdth m yHdth!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!
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happiness
love
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nny l 'r~ fy 'y mkn shyy'an swk , w kl m `dk fhw `ndy sw . lmdh 'Hbk ? w kyf 'Hbk ? l 'dry . qd l tkwnyn mn ljml `l~ shy lbt@ . hl ttSwryn 'nny l '`rf ''nt jmyl@ 'm l , Ht~ mn nHy@ jml lwjh ? 'm qlbk fsyy' wl shk , w 'm fkrk fmn ljy'z jdan 'n ykwn mjrdan mn kl rf`@ w nbl .
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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love equates people
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! , perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I fancied that many things had existed in the past, but afterwards I guessed that there never had been anything in the past either, but that it had only seemed so for some reason. Little by little I guessed that there would be nothing in the futu..
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suicide
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It is not time that matters, but you yourself
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake That will be punishment as well as the prison.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |