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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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Trifles, trifles are what matter!

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‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

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Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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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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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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