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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

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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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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

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At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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