Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Only scoundrels find it easy to lie in all circumstances.

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Don't lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and bends his ear to his own lies ends up not distinguishing the truth either in himself or around him; to no longer have respect for himself or for the other world.

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Power needs no swearing.

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The love of pleasure begets voluptuousness, and voluptuousness, cruelty.

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Society is built on moral foundations.

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The consciousness of your own impotence to do even anything useful for mankind, being convinced of the suffering of mankind, can change in your heart the love of mankind into the hatred of it.

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Contact with nature is the last word of any kind of progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and elegant manners.

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Compassion is the highest form of human existence.

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Happiness does not consist in happiness, but only in the attainment of it.

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Talent needs sympathy and understanding.

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Feeling is purified only when it is in contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of an ideal.

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Just live, live and live! To live no matter how - just to live! What truth! God, what truth! The man is a scoundrel! And villain is he who makes him villain for this.

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Freedom does not consist, in fact, in abstinence, but rather in self-mastery.

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The most serious problems of contemporary man arise from the fact that he has lost his sense of conscious cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.

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Religion is only a form of morality.

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Civic social ideals, which are not organically connected with moral ideals, have never existed and cannot exist!

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He was kind to those to whom he did good, but especially to those to whom he did even greater good.

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Describing a flower out of love for nature contains more civic sense than unmasking some scoundrels, because here we are talking about a contact with nature, love for nature.

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Justify, not punish, but call evil evil.

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The main idea must always be much higher than the possibility of its realization.

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Only that war which was started for an idea, for a supreme principle, and not for material interests or to plunder greedily, proves useful.

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Decent manners consist of sincerity and honesty.

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Praise is always chaste.

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To penetrate the heart. Here is a deep thought, for what does it mean to "seem in the heart"? To instill morality, the thirst for morality.

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May the judges pardon the criminals; the misfortune is that the criminals themselves will begin to forgive themselves.

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Anyone who wants to see the Living God, should look for Him not on the empty vault of their own reason, but in human love.

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He who does not understand his vocation, most of the time, lacks respect for himself.

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Free laws are good when they are given to people who respect themselves, and therefore respect their own duty, the duty of citizenship.

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To love simply, you must know how to show your love.

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To love each other, you have to fight with yourself.

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To act wisely, the mind is not enough.

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Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of obligation: they harbor an eternal cowardly aversion to all obligation.

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Humor is the spirit of deep feeling.

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I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people.

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I am guilty of him, therefore I must take revenge on him.

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I can't imagine a situation where we would ever have nothing to do.

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I really don't know why life is so short. Of course not to bore us, because life is also a work of art of the Creator Himself in the final and flawless form of Pushkin's poetry. Conciseness is the first condition of the artistic. But if one is not bored, one should live longer.

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I read strangely and reading has a strange effect on me. If I re-read something I read a long time ago, I strain again with a different force, and I penetrate everything, I clearly understand my ability to create myself.

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I do not want a society in which I cannot do evil, but one in which I can do any evil, but do not want to do it myself.

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What appears to the mind as shame, to the heart appears to be full beauty.

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Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.

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It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!

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Fantasy is a natural human power. By not satisfying it, you will either kill it or, conversely, allow it to develop too much (which is harmful).

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Good thoughts are preferable to great style. A style is, so to speak, an outer garment; a thought is the body hidden under clothes.

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Man is a whole world, it is important that the main reason that animates him is noble.

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Man is a being who gets used to anything and in my opinion this is the best definition of man.

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The man who was not a child will be a bad citizen.

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The more nationalistic we are, the more European we will be.

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What will you bring people together to achieve your civic goals if not based on a great moral idea?

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An honest man lives so that he makes enemies.

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What is talent? Talent is the ability to say something or express yourself well where mediocrity will make it ugly.

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The honest always have more enemies than the dishonest.

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If honor is gone, there remains a form of honor equivalent to honor death.

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Every man assumes responsibility to all men for all and for everything.

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What is the difference between a demon and a human? Goethe's Mephistopheles says: "I am a part of that part of the whole which wills evil, but does good." Unfortunately, the man could say the exact opposite about himself.

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He who is inclined to easily lose respect for others does not respect himself in the first place.

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He who does not love nature, he does not love man, he is not a citizen.

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Only scoundrels tell lies.

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He who lies to himself and who listens to his own lie ends up not distinguishing the truth either in himself or around him, and therefore no longer respects himself or others.

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A fool who has admitted that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

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Only through work and struggle is originality and self-esteem acquired.

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Art has never left man, it has always responded to his needs and ideals, it has always helped him in the pursuit of this ideal, it was born with man and developed alongside his historical existence.

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Art is a human need just like eating and drinking. The need for beauty and the creation that embodies it are inseparable from man, and without them, man would probably not want to live in the world.

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Sometimes it is more profitable to have someone among enemies than among friends.

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Cursed be these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if not for its preservation it is necessary to flay, the skin from men.

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It is a bad sign if people no longer understand an irony, an allegory, a joke.

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If you're heading towards a goal and stopping to throw stones at every dog ​​that barks at you, you'll never reach your destination.

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If you want to search a man and know his soul, then do not concern yourself with how he is silent, speaks or cries, how he looks worried about the noblest ideas, but rather look at him when he laughs. If a man laughs healthily, he is therefore a good man.

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If you want, man must be deeply unhappy, in order to feel happiness at some point. And if he will always be happy, anything can make him deeply unhappy.

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There are times when people love crime.

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There are three types of villains in the world: naive villains, those who believe that their villainy is the highest nobility, villains who are ashamed of their own villainy but still intend to see it through, and finally , simply the scoundrels, the pure blood scoundrels.

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Life is boring without a moral purpose, it is not worth living just to eat, and the worker knows this - therefore there must be a moral occupation in life.

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The idea of ​​immortality is life itself, living life, its ultimate formula and the primary source of truth and consciousness for mankind.

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Only by assimilating to perfection, as much as possible, the initial material, that is, the mother tongue, will we be able to learn to perfection, as much as possible, a foreign language, and not before.

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The best men are known by the highest degree of moral development and by the greatest moral influence.

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Love is so powerful, it makes us reborn.

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There is no greater idea than to sacrifice your life, defending your brothers and motherland.

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There is nothing in the world harder than sincerity and nothing easier than flattery.

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There is no happiness in the absence of action.

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With no science you will not build a society, if you lack a noble material, if you lack the living and good will to live honestly and with love.

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Science will show the benefits and prove that it is most profitable to be honest.

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Not being surprised at anything is, without doubt, a sign of stupidity, not of wisdom.

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What should I do if I know that at the base of all human virtues lies the deepest selfishness. And the more virtuous a situation, the more selfishness is present. Love yourself - that's the only rule I recognize. Life is a business transaction.

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Moral is only that which corresponds to your sense of beauty and that ideal in which you embody it.

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He who wants to be useful can do a lot of good even with his hands tied.

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You can cross the whole world with the help of a lie, but you will not be able to turn back.

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You can't love what you don't know!

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Absurdities are too necessary on earth. The world is built on absurdities, and without them, probably, nothing in it could have happened.

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The measure of a people is not given by what it is, but by what it considers to be beautiful and true, which makes it sigh.

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Alms corrupts both the one who gives it and the one who receives it, and more than that, without achieving its goal, it only strengthens begging.

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Is it possible to love all people? Of course not, it would even be unnatural. In the abstract love of all mankind, you almost always love only yourself.

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We must not rise above the children, because we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them better, they make us better by coming into contact with us.

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That is why the mind is given, to get what you want.

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You must love life more than the meaning of life.

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Not the best are strong, but the honest. Self honor and dignity are the strongest.

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Do not demand the rights of all mankind, otherwise you will be the first to call the law for help.

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It is not enough to determine morality by faithfulness to one's own beliefs. You have to ask yourself: are my beliefs true?

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Ideally, the public conscience must say: let us all perish, if our salvation depends only on one tormented child, and he does not agree to save us.

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Wealth and coarseness of pleasures beget laziness, which in turn begets slaves.

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Vanity and conceit are not a sign of a sense of one's own dignity.

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Without ideals, that is, without the desire for a concrete good, there can be no good reality.

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Without children, humanity could not be loved so much.

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Without generous ideas, humanity cannot live.

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The mark of true art lies in the fact that art is always contemporary and useful.

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Man's cheerfulness is an important characteristic of him.

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Wine tames man, hardens him and makes him deviate from bright thoughts, makes him stupid.

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The greatest and most characteristic feature of our people is the sense of justice and the thirst for justice.

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Supreme happiness compels the soul.

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The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what drives it: the heart, good feelings, progressive ideas.

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Humanity is just a habit, a fruit of civilization. It can disappear completely.

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The secret of human existence lies not in living, but in why we live. If a person does not have a firm idea of ​​why he should live, he refuses to live and would rather destroy himself than stay on this earth, even if he is surrounded by bread.

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If I wanted to destroy someone completely, to trample them to pieces, to inflict the most terrible punishment, which would make even the most terrible murderer tremble and collapse, I would have to do nothing but make his work completely useless and meaningless.

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People only like to count their troubles, not their joys.

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It's a sad thing to live without hope, brother... I look ahead, and the future scares me... I walk in some freezing arctic atmosphere, where the sun's rays do not penetrate...

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Everything is good... Everything. Man is unhappy because he does not know that he is happy. That is all. That's it, that's it! If anyone finds out, they will be instantly happy, right at that moment.

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If we want to get to know someone, no matter who they are, we have to approach them step by step, cautiously, so as not to make a biased, wrong judgement, which is very difficult to correct and smooth out later.

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We hold our destiny in our hands, and everything slips out of our grasp, just because we are cowards... Yes, it's a basic truth... It's interesting what people fear the most: the new step, the new, important word.

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The world is built on stupid things, without them, perhaps nothing would happen in it.

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Beauty can turn the world upside down.

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I live through whole novels in my dreams.

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Oh, how unbearable the happy man is sometimes!

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The heart that loves a lot suffers a lot.

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What the hell? The pain of not being able to love anymore.

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The ghost is, so to speak, a piece of another world, a tip, the edge of it, a healthy person has no reason to show it, since a healthy person is the most earthly person, so he only lives this earthly life, if only for the sake of order and completeness. But as soon as he gets sick, as soon as the normal earthly order is disrupted in his body, the possibility of another world immediately arises, and the sicker he gets, the more strongly he comes into contact with this other world, so that when he dies, he moves directly there.

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Without hope, man ceases to exist.

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What if I didn't die?! What if I got my life back?! What infinity?! And it would all be mine! Then I would turn every minute into an eternity, I wouldn't waste anything, I would count every minute, and I wouldn't waste a single one in vain!

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In my opinion, the smartest of us all is the one who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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The soul is healed in the presence of children.

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Don't you wash away half of your sin by taking on the suffering?

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Nothing is easier than to condemn the evil-doer, and nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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People caught in the cycle of lies sin and irretrievably perish.

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Man takes revenge because he finds it just.

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Everyone has memories that they don't reveal to everyone, at most to their friends. There are also those that he does not reveal even to his friends, at most to himself, but also to himself as a seven-sealed secret. And finally, there are some that you don't even dare to reveal to yourself, and enough of such things accumulate in the memory of every normal person. In fact, the thing is: the more orderly a person is, the more such memories he has.

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Just don't spit in the well, just in case you drink from it yourself.

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When we love someone, we don't remember for long that they hurt us.

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Sometimes we meet someone, maybe we've never seen them before, but as soon as we glance at them, we're interested, before we've even exchanged a word.

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I feel that our world is a purgatory of heavenly spirits confused by sinful thoughts. I like that the world took on a negative meaning and turned into a satire of sublime, subtle spirituality.

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He who spares his sacrifice, let him suffer. A great mind and deep feeling obligates to suffering and pain. The really great people, I think, carry a lot of pain on this earth.

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Money is coined freedom.

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Love is a gift from God, it is in everything and in every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love animals, love plants, love everything. If you love everything, you can discover the divine mystery in things. Once you discover it, you will understand it better every day. Eventually, you reach the point where you embrace the whole world in your love.

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To love a person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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Art is a human need just like eating and drinking.

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Columbus was not happy when he discovered America, but when he was still looking for it.

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Public opinion can be poisoned, but only with poison that it likes.

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Suffering is life. Without suffering, what would be the pleasure in it; it would be one endless thanksgiving, which is a divine thing, but a little boring.

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Lying is man's only privilege over other living creatures. A lie leads to the truth! I lie, so I'm human. They never discovered a single truth without first lying fourteen or a hundred and fourteen times. And that's respectable, basically. But we can't even lie with our own minds! Lie your way and I'll kiss you for it. Lying in my own way is almost worth more than telling the truth at someone else's expense. In the first case you are human, in the second you are just a jay.

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Here the devil fights with God, and the hearts of men are the battlefield.

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The desire for beauty and the creation that embodies it is inseparable from man, without which he will find little joy on earth. Man desires, finds and accepts beauty without any conditions, just because it is beauty, and bows before it in awe, without asking what it can be used for or what it can be bought for.

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If you want to look into people's souls and get to know someone, don't watch how they speak, listen, cry, or whether they are moved by noble ideals, but watch how they laugh. He who can laugh from his heart is a good person.

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A true man departs, but his light remains.

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If you lose your mind, the devil will help you!

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than being honest, and nothing easier than flattering. If only one sound is false in honesty, there is already dissonance, and with it scandal. But if the flattery is false all the way, to the last note, it is still pleasant, it is still listened to with pleasure. A shallow pleasure, but a pleasure. And no matter how thick the flattery is, at least half of it is believed.

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I fear nothing more than mediocrity; I think it's luckier if something is good or very good or even very bad. Thirty arcs of mediocrity - unforgivable.

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Self-knowledge is our weak point, although it is absolutely necessary.

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They say that art should reflect life, etc. All this is foolishness; the writer (or poet) himself creates life, namely, he creates something that did not exist in its entirety before.

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They say that reality is boring and monotonous, and that art and fantasy are meant to entertain, so they read novels. For me, on the contrary, what could be more fantastic and unexpected than reality?

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He who can write about himself without shame is contemptuously in love with himself.

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The hardest thing in life: to live and not lie.

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You won't fix anyone if you push them away.

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Today is the age of the golden mean and insensitivity, the age of laziness, glorification of ignorance, inability to work, consumption of ready-made ideas and ideals. No one thinks; it is rare for a person to produce some kind of idea from himself.

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The Russian woman quickly becomes ugly, her beauty is a passing phenomenon, and the reason for this lies not only in certain ethnographic characteristics, but also in the fact that the Russian woman loves without reservation, and when she loves, she gives everything at once; the moment and his whole life, present and future; she can't economize, she doesn't manage her possessions, she always gives her beauty to the one she loves.

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The degree of civilization of a society can be measured by the prisoners.

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Man, as vile as he is, gets used to everything.

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Sometimes the strangest idea, even the most impossible thought, embeds itself so strongly in the brain that one finally imagines it as feasible... What's more: if such an idea is combined with a strong, passionate desire, then one sees it as fateful, inevitable, an order of fate , and considers it impossible for it not to be realized.

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A loving woman adores even the faults and sins of the beloved being. The man himself cannot find such excuses for his own evils as the loving woman makes for him.

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It's amazing what a single ray of sunlight can do to the human soul.

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There are those tender and sensitive natures who are prevented by some obstinacy, some shame, from expressing themselves and from showing their weakness to the beloved being, not only in the presence of others, but even in private - still less in private; only rarely does love break out in them, and the more violently, the more unrestrained, the longer it was repressed.

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There is a trait in a woman's character that if, for example, she is at fault in something, she would rather smooth it over later with a thousand kindnesses than admit it on the spot and ask for forgiveness.

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Reason is not the main thing, but what controls it - nature, heart, character traits, development.

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If you want to be respected, the most important thing is to respect yourself; only by respecting ourselves can we make others respect us.

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Be happy with whoever you want. I cannot ask more from your heart than it can give.

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The basis of all human virtue is the deepest selfishness. And the more virtuous something is, the more selfish it is. Love yourself - this is the only principle I profess.

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There is no such love on earth that both love each other equally.

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Women's nature is not a bottomless sea, you can easily recognize it, but it is cunning, tenacious, stubborn and sudden: she says, give it, Lord, but soon!

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Just give freedom to a weak person, he will tie it up and bring it back. Stupid heart can't do anything with freedom!

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It is interesting and amusing how much the look of a shameful, truly sickly moral person can sometimes express, if that person is in love, especially if he would be a thousand times more willing to sink underground than to reveal anything of his feelings with his words or his eyes.

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The complete absence of arrogance manifests itself as a real decent person who absolutely respects and makes himself respected in his situation, whatever it may be and whatever fate throws at him. For someone to show sufficient self-respect in his position is extremely rare in the world, at least as rare as true dignity...

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Perhaps it is better that people insult me: at least they save me from the misfortune of loving them.

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Can someone be unhappy? Oh, what does my trouble, my sorrow matter if I can be happy?! You know, I don't understand how anyone can walk past a tree without being happy to see it. How can you talk to a man if he won't be happy that he loves you! Oh, I just can't express it... and how many beautiful things are there in the world that even the most lost person finds beautiful?! Look at the little child, look at the beautiful dawn of God, look at the blade of grass how it grows, look into the eyes of the one who looks at you and loves you...

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Everyone should have at least one person who cares for them!

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Just as a mother rejoices when she notices her baby's first smile, God rejoices in exactly the same way whenever he sees from heaven that a sinner is preparing to pray with all his heart.

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The best way to improve is to remember the past with repentance.

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Even the most perverted and inveterate murderer knows that he is an evildoer, that is, he considers his action wrong according to his conscience, even though he has not regretted it in the slightest.

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He is a coward who fears and flees; he who is afraid but does not run away is not yet a coward.

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Do you know that a woman can beat a man to death with her cruel taunts, without feeling a single moment of remorse, because every time she looks at him she thinks to herself: "Now I'm torturing him to death, but later I'll make up for everything with my love. "

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But since it is a general need to live, eat, and drink, and the complete, scientific conviction that this need cannot be satisfied without general association and reconciliation of interests, I think it is a strong enough idea to be the basis of the future centuries of humanity. and serve as "the source of life".

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The individual good deed always remains because the individual's need, the individual's living need, is to have a direct effect on another individual.

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We demean providence too much when we attribute our own concepts to it in our annoyance at not being able to understand it.

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What (...) begins with a lie must also end with a lie; it is a natural law.

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Deep grief is mostly silent and hidden.

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It's easier to be a hero for a second, an hour, than to live everyday with silent heroism. Take it upon yourself to live the gray, everyday life, to do the work that no one praises for, the heroism of which no one notices, with which you do not arouse anyone's interest in you, the one who endures this gray everyday life and still remains human is the real hero .

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Of course, I don't break through the wall with my forehead if I really don't have the strength to break through, but I don't put up with it just because there is a stone wall in front of me and because I don't have enough strength.

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In general, I always hated to say, "I'm sorry, papa, I won't do it again" - not because I wasn't capable of it, but on the contrary, perhaps because I was too capable of it; how much more so!

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Man is a frivolous and aversive creature, and like a chess player, perhaps he loves the process of achieving a goal rather than the goal itself. And who knows (it is impossible to vouch) whether all the goals in this world towards which humanity strives lie only in the continuous process of achievement, in other words in life itself, and not in the actual goal, which of course cannot be other than the twofold two four is a formula, except that two two four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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If I had a family when I was a child, then I am not who I am now. This often crosses my mind. Because no matter how bad things are in the family, one still lives with one's parents, not with strangers, not with enemies.

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Love is a divine secret, it must remain hidden from all uninitiated eyes, no matter what happens! The holier it is, the more expensive it will be!

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Great thoughts come not so much from great minds as from great feeling.

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The secret consciousness of power is worth much more than open rule.

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I tried to get him to confess everything to me himself, although otherwise I admitted that certain things might be difficult to confess. He also saw into my kidney, that is, he was fully aware that I was looking into his kidney and even angry at him, so he was also angry at me for being angry at him and seeing into his kidney.

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The excess of consciousness is a disease, a real, unadulterated disease. The average human consciousness would be more than enough for a person's daily life, so half, even a quarter, of the portion that goes to the class portion of the developed man of our unfortunate nineteenth century.

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Natural and active people honestly stop in front of the wall. For them, the wall is not an escape, as it is for us, people who think and therefore do nothing; it is not an excuse for them to turn back halfway, not an excuse in which our kind usually do not believe themselves, but which they are always very happy about. No, they are quite frankly stalling. In their eyes, the wall has a reassuring, morally liberating, definitive, and perhaps even mystical significance.

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Nature doesn't care about you, it has nothing to do with your desires or whether you like its laws or not. You have an obligation to accept it as it is, so you must also accept all its results.

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The sunrise, the Bay of Naples, the sea... but one looks, looks and gets sad. The worst thing is that you are always sad for something. Then it's better at home: here at least I can blame others, and I've done it myself.

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My friends, ask God for joy. Be merry as the birds of the air. And don't let the sin of people disturb you in your actions, don't be afraid that it will sweep you away and prevent you from realizing your works, don't say that sin is strong, dishonesty is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and helpless, the world is sweeping us away , and does not allow our noble work to be realized. Avoid such little faith, my children!

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Time is nothing but the relationship between being and non-being.

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There are insults (...) that cannot be forgotten even with the best will.

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Even from the worst family, fond memories can remain if one's soul is capable of looking for the dear.

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Man is a kind creature! (...) He is a creature who gets used to everything.

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Love! I think that's all! Love is a diamond, a virgin's treasure! (...) Some men are ready to give their lives, are ready to go to great lengths to earn this love!

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Some women, the more they love their husbands, the more often they break up with him.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, he doesn't count his happiness. If he took sufficient account of both this and that, he would find that he is provided with both.

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In our age, all decent people are necessarily cowardly slaves. This is its natural state. This is my deep conviction. That's what it was created for, that's what it's made of. And the common man, not only now, because of some accidental circumstances, but in general in all ages is necessarily a cowardly slave. It is a natural law for every ordinary person on this earth.

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Life is beautiful even in sorrow, it is good to live in the world, no matter how you live.

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The beggar is not chased away with a stick, but with a broom, because it is more offensive. And rightfully so, because if I beg, I'm ready to spit on myself.

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The more I drink, the stronger I feel, and I drink because I'm looking for this feeling, this suffering. I don't want to comfort myself, I just want to feel this pain... I drink because I really want to suffer.

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Love children especially, because they are without sin, like the angels. They are in the world for our joy, to make our hearts better.

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Self-deception is more deeply rooted than when we lie to others.

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We are burning for the noblest ideals, only on the condition that they become available on their own... and especially for free.

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Even if the thought is wretched, it is always deeper as long as it remains in us, and when expressed in words, it is more ridiculous and dishonest.

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If a person comes under the influence of a dominant idea, and this idea fills his mind and heart, then I really can't imagine that he would be concerned with anything else besides that idea.

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Many of the very proud people like to believe in God, especially those who despise people. A strong personality often has a natural need to find someone or something to bow to. The strong sometimes have a hard time bearing their strength.

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Money is a real tyrannical power, but at the same time it is also the highest degree of equality, and this is where its power comes from. Money equalizes all inequalities.

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Ah, sometimes it hurts you too that the thought doesn't fit into the speech! This is noble suffering, my dear friend; the donkey is always satisfied with what he has said and always says more than he should.

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Many people today still count themselves among the young generation out of sheer habit, because they belonged to it yesterday, and they don't realize that they have already received the obsit!

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Showing one's feelings for all to see is something to be ashamed of, isn't it? That's why sometimes I prefer to be gloomy and listen.

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There is no hidden secret that will not come to light.

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Listening is good, safe and beautiful. (...) Silence is always beautiful, a silent person is more beautiful than a person who speaks.

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To love people as they are is completely impossible. And yet you have to love them. So do them a favor by taking control of your feelings, holding your nose and closing your eyes (the latter is essential). Put up with bad things from them, if possible don't be angry with them, "remembering that you are also human".

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If someone preaches honor, be honest yourself... that's my logic, and if it's not right, I don't mind.

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I have no right to condemn others, because "I cannot suffer", and one must suffer for the right to be a judge of others.

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Every person, no matter who they are, has something happen in their life that they remember, or at least tend to look back on as an extraordinary, fantastic, out of the ordinary, almost miraculous event - be it a dream, meeting, prediction, premonition or something else like that.

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Love consists precisely in the fact that the object of our love voluntarily bestows the right to tyranny.

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The one who lies to himself and listens to the lies of his own gets to the point where he does not discover any truth either in himself or around him, so he sinks into disrespect both towards himself and others. If you don't respect someone, you can't even love them anymore.

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The sillier the speech, the closer it gets to the point. And the dumber, the clearer. Stupidity is modest and honest, while reason is obtuse and secretive. Reason is inferior, and stupidity is open and honest.

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Don't be afraid of people's sins, my brothers, love people even in their sins. (...) Because no one on this earth can be the judge of a sinner, until the judge himself realizes that he is exactly as guilty as the person in front of him.

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Do not reason with a cunning mind, surrender to life, simply, without reflection, and do not be afraid: it will take you to the shore and set you on your feet.

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One has to be a big man to be able to resist even common sense.

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The large mass, the raw material in the world, is for the purpose of eventually creating at least one semi-independent individuality out of a thousand through some kind of effort, a certain process that has not yet been deciphered, through the crossing of different species and types.

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He who has a conscience should suffer if he admits that he has sinned.

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The real ruler, who is free to do everything, destroys Toluon, arranges a massacre in Paris, forgets an army in Egypt, sacrifices half a million men in the Moscow campaign, and settles it all with a pun in Vilna! Yes, he was put on a pedestal after his death... so he was free to do anything! No, such a person is obviously not made of flesh and blood, but of bronze!

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I also accept that ghosts are only seen by the sick, but that only proves that they cannot appear to anyone other than the sick, and not that ghosts do not exist at all.

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We always imagine eternity as an idea, unattainable by reason, and huge, huge!

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Everything has a limit, and it is dangerous to cross it, because once we cross it, there is no going back.

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A person's soul hurts, so much so that it does not let him sleep.

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Everything that is useful to humanity is noble.

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Suffer too, it will be easier for me!

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What joy is there in the fact that a person just goes along with everything throughout his life, without taking part in anything?

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And now I also know that whoever is smarter and more determined rules them! He who dares everything is right before them! The one who kicks everything aside is their legislator, the one who dares the most, the right is the strongest. That's how it's been forever, and that's how it always will be!

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Power can only be in the hands of those who dare to stoop down for it and grab it. Only this is important, only this one is important: you have to dare!

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There are cases where a person is in mortal terror for half an hour in the claws of an outlaw, but when the knife is put to his throat, his fear ceases.

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Where two people are doing well, don't let a third stick their nose in there.

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Blood has been shed and shed since the beginning of the world, it flowed like a waterfall, champagne, and he who shed it was crowned on the capitol and later called the benefactor of mankind.

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What didn't work, we always see as stupidity!

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We can only judge certain people fairly if we set aside our prejudices and detach ourselves from the people and things we are used to in our everyday environment.

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It is quite remarkable that the benefactors and promoters of humanity were mostly terrible bloodshed.

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You only have to make the social order (...) healthy, and sin will simply disappear, because there will be nothing to protest against, and everyone will suddenly become a righteous person.

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Mere reason is not enough for smart behavior.

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- Don't despise life, Rogyion Romanovich, you still have a lot ahead of you. (...) - What is still ahead of me? - Life! You are not a prophet, what do you know! "Seek and you shall find!" Maybe this is exactly what God expects from you!

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It is a fantastic, dark, modern affair, the case of our day, when the human heart is already confused; when they quote the phrase that blood "refreshes", when they prophesy about existence while living in comfort. Here we are talking about book-flavored daydreams, the theoretical excitement of the heart, please.

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There is an idea that, as soon as you put it into words and say it out loud, you see it as terribly stupid. So stupid that you are ashamed of yourself. And why? That's why. Because we are all so bad that we cannot bear the truth at all.

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You have no idea what kind of paradise I would have created around you. The tomato was in my soul and I would have planted all its flowers here. Good. You didn't want to. After all, that wouldn't have changed things either. Everything would have remained as you wished and I would have left you alone. You would have treated me as if I were your good friend, you would have told me everything, we would have both been happy and smiled and looked cheerfully into each other's eyes. And that's how our lives would have passed. And if you had fallen in love with someone else - I wouldn't have cared about that either. You would have walked with him and laughed, and I would have haunted you with my eyes on the other side of the street...

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The Lord is not in power, but in truth.

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Loving piety is a tremendous force, the most powerful, the like of which is not produced anywhere.

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A poor man can retain his innate sense of nobility, a beggar never.

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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when someone has nowhere to go? (...) Because everyone should have at least one last refuge!

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In a sick state of mind, our dreams are often incredibly plastic, sharp and extremely similar to reality. Sometimes impossible images flash by, but at the same time, the circumstances and the whole process of events are so realistic, they are complemented by so many small, unexpected, but artistically perfectly fitting details that the dreamer could not have imagined when awake, even if he was an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev. Such pathological dreams always remain in the person for a long time and have a strong effect on the already damaged and upset body.

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What do you think, doesn't a tiny, one-time sin equal a thousand good deeds?

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The question is now this: does the disease give birth to the crime, or does it follow from the specific nature of the crime itself that it is always accompanied by some morbid process?

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Everything is relative, everything is relative, everything is just formality...

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He who chases two rabbits won't catch one.

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An hour before his execution, the condemned man always says or thinks that if he had to live somewhere on a high cliff top, in a place so small that he could just stand there, and all around there was an abyss, sea, eternal darkness, loneliness, eternal storm; if he had to spend a lifetime, a thousand years, an entire eternity standing there, in that sizeable place, even that would be better than dying right now. Just live... live... live... Either way, live!

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The queen who mended her stockings in the prison (...) was certainly truly queenly, perhaps even more so than at fancy celebrations.

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There are hardly any completely balanced people, there is no doubt about it, there is one if among many tens of thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands, and even that is a rather weak specimen...

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If you reach the limit and don't cross it, you'll be unhappy, but if you cross it, you might be even more unhappy.

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There are strange friendships: the two friends fight incessantly, they live like this all their lives, but they still cannot separate.

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We can't arrange anything without our head, even though our head is the biggest obstacle to understanding anything.

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A complete atheist is on the penultimate rung of the ladder leading to the most complete faith (then he either surpasses it or not), but an indifferent person has no faith at all, at most a feeble fear, and that rarely: only if the person is emotional.

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A big bonfire at night is always stimulating and creates a cheerful atmosphere: this is what fireworks are based on; except that there the fire has a nice, regular outline, and being completely harmless, it has a playful and light effect, like a glass of champagne.

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I really like to cry "feeling sorry for myself".

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There are seconds, only five or six at a time, when one suddenly feels the presence of eternal harmony that is fully attainable. It is not an earthly feeling; I do not say that it is heavenly, but that man cannot bear it in earthly form.

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There are moments of terror when a person begins to shout not in his usual voice, but in such a terrible voice that one could not even imagine it before, and this is sometimes extremely terrifying.

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The whole law of human existence lies only in the fact that man can always bow before the immeasurable great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they cannot live any longer, but die in their despair. Man needs the immeasurable and the infinite just as much as he needs the little planet he lives on.

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Although only a minute ago he had longed for the company of people, his usual feeling of irritation and dislike for any stranger who tried or even intended to approach his person arose at the first word that was actually addressed to him.

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He is sitting there on the edge of the hideous abyss, on the edge of destruction, the abyss is already pulling him down, and he just blinks and closes his ears when he is warned of danger! But what are you waiting for? Maybe a miracle? Yes, that's the only way! Aren't these the symptoms of insanity?

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Because it is true that you are a great sinner (...), your sin is particularly great because you have sacrificed and thrown yourself there to no avail. Wouldn't that be an abomination? Don't I hate that you live in filth, when you hate filth so much, and you yourself know (you only have to open your eyes) that you are not benefiting anyone, you are not exempting anyone from anything?

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It is only laziness that people classify each other according to appearance and find nothing in each other...

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A person who is too carried away by passion - especially if he is of age - is completely blinded, and even guesses hope where there is none at all; he even loses his sanity and acts like a foolish child, even though he is the wisest of the wise.

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It is difficult to express an opinion about beauty... beauty is a riddle.

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A good-hearted but foolish fool is just as unfortunate a fool as a wise but heartless fool.

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It always seems to me that there are far more thieves in the world than non-thieves, and that there is no honest person who has not stolen something at least once in his life.

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If you get up from your seat, pass by me, I look at you, I watch you; when your dress rustles across the room, my heart stops, when you leave the room, I recall all your words, even your voice, as you said; and this night I didn't think about anything, I kept listening to how you breathed in your sleep and how you turned twice...

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Someone should only have spiritual nobility, everything else can be acquired with talent, knowledge, intellect, and genius.

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Everyone takes care of themselves, and the one who can fool himself the best lives his world the happiest.

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Great talents have always seized power and become tyrants. Great talents necessarily become tyrants, and always do more moral destruction than good.

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It's different to argue until we reach something than to just sit and listen like dictators.

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I like liberalism and modernity, and I like to listen to smart talk, but I apologize in advance: only from men's mouths.

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What could be more foolish than a foolish, good-natured woman?

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Fifty years is not the end, but half of life.

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If you want to conquer the world, conquer yourself!

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This short word, "why?", poured over the entire universe on the very first day of the creation of the world, and the whole of nature cries out to its creator from moment to moment: "Why?" But for seven thousand years now, it has not received an answer.

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Real, undoubted pain can sometimes make even an amazingly light-hearted person serious and solid, if only for a short time; in fact, real, real pain sometimes makes even fools wiser, of course also only for a while: such is the nature of pain.

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My friend, the real truth is always unreal, do you know that? In order to make the truth real, lies must be directly mixed in.

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Don't you understand that in addition to happiness, a person needs exactly the same amount of unhappiness?!

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It would be best if one did not take on a role at all, but appeared as one's own self, wouldn't it? There is nothing more cunning than our own self, because no one believes it.

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People who can speak well speak briefly.

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No nation has yet been able to establish itself on the foundations of science and reason; there has never been an example of it, at most for a moment, out of stupidity. Socialism is necessarily atheism by its very essence, because it declared itself in the introduction that it is a world view that denies God and intends to be organized solely on the basis of science and reason. Reason and science have always played a secondary and auxiliary role in the lives of peoples since the beginning of time, and will continue to do so until the end of time. Nations are formed and moved by another force, a commanding and ruling force, whose origin is, however, unknown and inexplicable.

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There has never been a people without religion, that is, without the concept of good and bad. Each people has its own concept of bad and good, and its own bad and good.

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Every nation is a nation only as long as it has its own separate god, and rejects all the other gods in the world without compromise; as long as he believes that he will win with his own god and drive all the other gods out of the world.

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To make a rabbit wildly, you need a rabbit, to believe in god, you need a god...

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In this kind of old people, who have been drinking for many years, in the end there is always some kind of drunken mess, some bumpiness, some malfunction, although, otherwise, if they have to, they are almost as cunning, swindling and cheating as anyone else.

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It is hardly true that the second half of human life usually consists only of habits picked up in the first half.

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We cannot live our whole lives at the heights of our own imaginations.

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There is something in alms that corrupts a man forever...

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Never vouch for something that happens between husband and wife or between lovers. There is always a nook there that only the two of them know, no one else in the world.