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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

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Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

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Heart, His Love, Bears

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.187, Macmillan

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He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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Men, Suffering, New Life

"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

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And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

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Men, Secret, Germany

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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

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Unique, Men, Privilege

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

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Lying, Faithful, Deceit

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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

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Happiness, Men, Unhappy

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.212, 谷月社

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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fear, Atheism, Taste

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Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Animal, Light, Environmental

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

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Men, Compass, Harmony

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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Men, Desire, Enough

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.544, Random House

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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

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Intelligent, Men, Doe

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.6, Vintage

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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

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Dream, Crime Books, Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

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Live Life, Mean, Years

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It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

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Real, Men, Thinking

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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

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Falling In Love, Hate, Mean

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.104, Macmillan

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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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Gambling, Foolish, Pursuit

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.18, Modern Library

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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Earth, Made

"The Brothers Karamazov".

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Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

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Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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Happiness, Miracle, Forever

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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Life, Theory

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.484, 谷月社

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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fog, Cities, What If

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It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

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Feelings, Unhappy, Unhappiness

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

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What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Example, Use, Christ

Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.180, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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Bees, Doe, Way

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Born: November 11, 1821
Died: February 9, 1881
Occupation: Novelist
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