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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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.”

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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.”

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Source/Notes: The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

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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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source/Notes: The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book XI, Chapter 4. Variant translations: "Without God [...] All things are lawful then..."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.”

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“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”

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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.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source/Notes: The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”

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“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

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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 that he is a good man.”

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