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I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I most respectfully return him the ticket. View quote
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Granted that I dreamed it, yet it must have been real. You know, I will tell you a secret: perhaps it was not a dream at all! View quote
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They were laughed at or pelted with stones. View quote
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Meanwhile, in their solitude, they keep the image of Christ fair and undefiled, in the purity of God's truth, from the times of the Fathers of old, the Apostles and the martyrs. And when the time comes they will show it to the tottering creeds of the world. View quote
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Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it. View quote
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. View quote
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Then such grief took possession of my soul that my heart was wrung, and I felt as though I were dying; and then . . . then I awoke. View quote
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The romantic is always intelligent. View quote
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They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. View quote
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It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. View quote
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To study the meaning of man and of life - I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. View quote
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The children of the sun, the children of their sun - oh, how beautiful they were! View quote
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I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. View quote
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A great many people were put down as mad among us last year. View quote
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I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me - and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. View quote
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A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? View quote
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Well, granted that it was only a dream, yet the sensation of the love of those innocent and beautiful people has remained with me for ever, and I feel as though their love is still flowing out to me from over there. View quote
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The modern negationist declares himself declares himself openly in favour of the devil's advice and maintains that it is more likely to result in man's happiness than the teachings of Christ. To our foolish but terrible Russian socialism (for our youth is mixed up in it) it is a directive and, it seems, a very powerful one: the loaves of bread. View quote
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They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all. View quote
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But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all. View quote
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The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness - that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once. View quote
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The question I should like to put to them is, in a nutshell, this: "Do you despise or do you respect mankind, you - its future saviours?" View quote
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