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• But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Disease, Facts, Consciousness

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• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Heart, Angel

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Past, Worry, Wickedness

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.542, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Father, Enemy

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• At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fate, Gone Away, Numbers

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• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Past, Men

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• Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Fall, Tears

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.315, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fire, Hands, Cold

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Years, Essence

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• Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Libertarian, Slave

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

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• If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mystery, Mystery Of God, Perceive

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

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• I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Success, Frustration, Firsts

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• A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Squares, Years, Space

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.588, Modern Library

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• My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

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  Lonely, Strong, Children

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• Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Doe

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• Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Boredom, Being Thankful

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• But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cutting, Ideas, Glee

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• On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, July, Bridges

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ideas, Brain, Genius

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.

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• At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Bundles, Position

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.55, Youcanprint

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