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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

1821 - 1881. Russian writer, author of "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov".

1. "To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: Love

2. "There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town."

categories: Art and Culture

3. "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics

4. "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."

source: "A Writer's Diary"

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

5. "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- God and Religion

6. "Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

source: "Notes from Underground"

categories: Various -:- Wit and Humor

7. "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

source: "Crime and Punishment"

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Power and Weakness

8. "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: Various

9. "Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: Freedom and Servitude

10. "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: Love -:- Nature and Animals

11. "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

source: "The Brothers Karamazov"

categories: God and Religion -:- Good and Evil

12. "A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."

source: "The Idiot"

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


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