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Fyodor Dostoevsky has 578 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud…
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't…
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character…
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would…
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a…
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For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air,…
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This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer…
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Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and…
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Depression is anger turned inward.
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Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
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I have tried to channel your anger, Raphael, but more remains. Anger clouds the mind. Turned inward it is an unconquerable enemy.
— Master Splinter
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