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Creature Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot…
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which…
- Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest…
- Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
- But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the…
- Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends…
- I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift…
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