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• I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Bores You, People

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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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  Love Life, Thinking, World Love

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Work, Character

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• Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Moments, Everlasting

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• The Russian soul is a dark place.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dark, Soul, Dark Places

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• Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Laziness, Firsts

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heaven, Secret, Atheism

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.17, A&C Black

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• They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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  Eye, Heart, Sick

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

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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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  Opposites, Able

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• God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Two, Doe

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• Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Two, Four

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• If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature

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• To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Murder, Crime

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

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  Real, Heart, Punishment

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

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• And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

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  Suffering, Wells, Idle

  "Notes From Underground And The Grand Inquisitor".

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

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  Caring, Lasts, November

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

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  People, Gone, World

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

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• The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

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  Beautiful, Sublime, Goodness

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• I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

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  Peace, Long, Tea

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.189, Youcanprint

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taverns, Stones, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Skeletons, Skins

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• For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

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  Fall, Love You, Farewell

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• When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Interest

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.111, Modern Library

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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

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  Hate, Ideas, Ambitious

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