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Realists do not fear the results of their study. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
To live without Hope is to Cease to live. View quote
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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. View quote
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? View quote
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. View quote
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I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. View quote
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. View quote
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All writers, not ours alone but foreigners also, who have sought to represent Absolute Beauty, were unequal to the task, for it is an infinitely difficult one. The beautiful is the ideal ; but ideals, with us as in civilized Europe, have long been wavering. There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is, as a matter of course, an infinite marvel. View quote
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I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. View quote
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... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it. View quote
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If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like? (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
People talk sometimes of 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. View quote
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Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it's not true and that it's blushing just as I am now, all over. View quote
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. View quote
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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. View quote
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. View quote
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. View quote
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. View quote
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. View quote
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If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' View quote
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Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they won't understand it. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. View quote
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Oh, everyone laughs in my face now, and assures me that one cannot dream of such details as I am telling now. View quote
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Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream - oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power! View quote
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I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. View quote
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