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Everything lies in a man's hands, and if he lets it all slip past his nose it's purely out of cowardice

DOSTOYEVSKY

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what are people most afraid of? Of doing something new, saying a new word of their own that hasn't been said before - that's what scares them most.

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When a man is poor he may still preserve the nobility of his inborn feelings, but when he's destitute he never ever can. If a man's destitute he isn't even driven out with a stick, he's swept out of human society with a broom, to make it as insulting as possible

DOSTOYEVSKY

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What if man - the whole human race in general, I mean - isn't really a villain at all? If that's true, it means that all the rest is just a load of superstition, just a lot of fears that have been put into people's heads, and there are no limits, and that's how it's meant to be!

DOSTOYEVSKY

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in order to be able to judge someone it's necessary to examine him for oneself, and at close quarters

DOSTOYEVSKY

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Let my life go to hang, we say, just as long as those dear, beloved creatures of mine are happy.

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When one is in a morbid state of health, one's dreams are often characterized by an unusual vividness and brilliance, and also by an extremely lifelike quality.

DOSTOYEVSKY

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but with his whole being he suddenly felt that he no longer possessed any freedom of thought or of will, and that everything had suddenly been decided once and for all.

DOSTOYEVSKY

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wouldn't one petty little crime like that be atoned for by all those thousands of good deeds?

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Ah, but it's possible to correct and channel nature, you know, old man - otherwise we would all just drown in a sea of prejudice. If it weren't for that, there would never have been a single great man.

DOSTOYEVSKY

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On the other hand, the question of whether it was an illness that gave rise to the crime, or whether the crime itself was,

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As long as I can manage to preserve my will and my reason and exercise them over them to the fullest extent, then they in their turn will all be vanquished when it becomes necessary for them to acquaint themselves with every last, microscopic detail of the affair

DOSTOYEVSKY

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There are some encounters, even with people who are complete strangers to us, in which we begin to take an interest right from the very first glance, suddenly, before we have uttered a word

DOSTOYEVSKY

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one can always forgive a man for telling lies; lying's a harmless activity, because it leads to the truth

DOSTOY

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To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's;

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in order to act cleverly, cleverness alone is not enough

DOSTOYEVSKY

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crime is a protest against the craziness of the social system

DOETOY

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People of genius are born one out of millions, while the great geniuses, the achievers of humanity, only come into being after many thousands of millions of people have passed through the earth

DOSTOYEVSKY

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Pain and suffering are inevitable for persons of broad awareness and depth of heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth

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 over utterly trivial things like that that clever people are caught. The cleverer a person is, the less he suspects he'll be caught out over some ordinary thing like that

DOSTOYEVSKY

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