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• I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Abuse, Add

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• Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Different

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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Purpose

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• When reason fails, the devil helps!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Devil, Helping

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Loneliness, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.907, e-artnow

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• Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Broken, Suffering, Break

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing

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• Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faith, Inspiration, Order

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Sunset

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• Hell is the inability to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inability To Love, Inability, Hell

  "It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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• If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Mind, Mystery

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• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

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

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• I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Great Person, Persons

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• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Second Chance

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.238, 谷月社

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

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  Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Talking, Privilege

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

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• They were like two enemies in love with one another.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Enemy

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.419, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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• The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Appearance, Symptoms

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

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• Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Acting, Enough

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Yoga, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.190, Xist Publishing

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• And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sweet, Love You, Sorrow

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