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• It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Men, Looks

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• One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Circumstances, Like Me

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• ‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Vices

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• Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kissing, Land, And Love

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.911, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tea, Ironic, Selfishness

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

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• Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Order, World

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• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Self, People

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• But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.71, Youcanprint

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• I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

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• If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forgiveness, Fall, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.489, First Avenue Editions

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• And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Men, Roots

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• Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Keys, Sky, Drawing

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• Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Notes From The Underground, Every Man

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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• . . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Book, Chinese

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• I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pity, Poor, Signs Of Love

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.288, First Avenue Editions

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• What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Adversity, Light

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

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• We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gogol, Overcoat, Russian Literature

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• Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Doubt, Mind, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.189, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hands, Giving, Independence

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• One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Perfection, Ignorant

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Differences, Healthy, Shade

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• I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forever, Soul, Mind

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• ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.1064, First Avenue Editions

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Awful, Sides

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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