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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!

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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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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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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

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And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

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What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

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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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originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

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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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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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Everything passes, only truth remains.

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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