Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (or Dostoevsky) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works include Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov

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We are stillborn, and for a long time we have been begotten not by living fathers, and that's just what we seem to like more and more

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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He read some book in that extremely tiny English print, which only the English can stand and whose convenience they even praise...

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say he is a good man

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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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In sowing your seed, your good deed in whatever form it takes, you give away part of your person and receive into yourself part of another's

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness

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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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If we are to give everything its due, then twice-two-makes-five is sometimes a most charming little thing, too.

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If, as you are going to sleep at night, you remember: "I did not do what I ought to have done," arise at once and do it.

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.