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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

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But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

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You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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