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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!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Forgotten, Driven

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• They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nasty, Social, Justification

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.902, First Avenue Editions

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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 to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

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  Stars, Lying, Night

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.266, Modern Library

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• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

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  Nurse, People, Kind

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• It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Accepting, This World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.235, Macmillan

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• My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  My Friends, Ifs

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• Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gambling, Tables, Superstitions

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.140, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Execution, Littles, Way

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• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

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  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Europe, Russia, Asia

  "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

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• --you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Done, Hurt Me

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.423, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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  Joy, Humanity, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Wonderful, Young

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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  Careers, History, Genius

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

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• I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

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  Believe, Air, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.635, Modern Library

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• Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

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  Karma, Children, Father

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.547, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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• In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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  Food, Feet, Libertarian

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

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• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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  Men, Ideas, Savages

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

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  Men, Keys, Piano

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• Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

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  Distance, Noble, Neighbor

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.237, Macmillan

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• An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

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  Longing, Reason, Hysterical

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• Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

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  Men, Numbers, Secret

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 11 (page 35), 1864.

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• You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mysterious, Ache

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• Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Noble

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• I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Humanity, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

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