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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“A priest went about among them with a cross, and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live.
He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment.
He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where…?
The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!'”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
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“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
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“To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.”
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“Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
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“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
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“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
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“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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