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If not reason, then the devil.

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Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

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I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

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Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

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But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

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