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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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“Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment