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

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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

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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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My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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