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• To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Disease, Honest

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.99, Modern Library

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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!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Solitude

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

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Heart, Desire

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

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beast, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, May, Found

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The House of the Dead”, p.72, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Keys

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

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• To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Perfection, Understanding, May

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.553, Vintage

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• Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Action, Forget, Reason

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.484, Vintage

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• At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Strong, Humility, Humble

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grief, Joy, Bereavement

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

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• My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Bliss, Moments

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

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• To cook your hare you must first catch it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cooking, Firsts, Hares

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.228, 谷月社

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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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• Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Mind, Consciousness

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• Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Perception

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.15, e-artnow

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• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Love You, What Matters

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Choices, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.117, Modern Library

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• I have a plan-to go mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Depression, Mad, Mental Illness

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• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Miracle, Doe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four, Littles

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• You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Eye, Boys

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• And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Simple, Neighbor, Needed

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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!"

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Race, Effort

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

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• I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Wish, Drink

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Deep Thought

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

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