Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Novelist. Living underground.

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And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November—on the third of November, to be precise—

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Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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A Russian heart can discern a great man even in the enemy of his country!

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But you won’t laugh. Your eyes are shining too. Enough poetry.”

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“But enough poetry! I am in tears; let me cry. It maybe foolishness that everybody would laugh at. --

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Красота спасет мир!

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Человек иногда ужасно любит страдание, до страсти.

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Достоевский бессмертен! 🎂

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I learnt the truth last November — on the third of November, to be precise — and I remember every instant since.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another.

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It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

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Catholicism is as good as an unchristian religion!

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— for, apart from other considerations, it's not a convenient mode of escape.

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In real life, extremely few brides jump out of windows just before their wedding, —

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Men are created to torment one another.

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I have not come by reason to believe that you are perfection; I simply have faith in it. But one wrong I do you: I love you.

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Don't consider my words the sick ecstasy of a sick mind, but you are for me perfection!

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Do you know that in that continual awareness of shame there is a sort of awful, unnatural enjoyment for her, a sort of revenge on someone.

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It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all