"Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy."
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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