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• No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Devil, Habit

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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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  Men, Thinking, Light

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics

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• How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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  Men, Years, Ideas

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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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  Stupid, Punishment, Asking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

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  Sorrow, Commandments

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.77, Macmillan

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• If not reason, then the devil.

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  Devil, Reason, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.72, Vintage

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• Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

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  Forgive Me, Forgiving

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

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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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  Dream, Real, Night

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

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

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  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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• But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

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  Memories, Moving, Blessed

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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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  Pride, Greatness, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.427, Bantam Classics

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• It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

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  Believe, Fall, Eye

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• Woe to the man who offends a small child!

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  Children, Men, Woe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.548, Bantam Classics

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• An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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  Artist, Reality, Shining

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• Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

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  Heart, Understanding, Mind

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.37, Google Publishing

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• Being in love doesn't mean loving.

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  Mean, Being In Love

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.51, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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

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  Believe, Evil, Normal

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

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• I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

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  Rebel, World, Accepting

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• Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

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  Confused, Taste, Inappropriate

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

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• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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  Firsts, Chance, Stranger

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.10, Google Publishing

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• The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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  Civilization, Degrees, Way

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• If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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  God Is Dead, Ifs

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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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  Men, Laughing, Encounters

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• Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

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  Men, Hands, Anxiety

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