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Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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

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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

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

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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