Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (tr. by Constance Garnett)
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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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I am my own enemy, I am my own murderer! My own murderer, that is what I am!
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Selected Prose; “The Double,”
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I have strange and ominous dreams at night.—
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Anna Grigoryevna c. May 1880
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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I was left for a moment alone. Disorder, a broken wine-glass on the floor, spilt wine, cigarette ends, fumes of drink and delirium in my brain, an agonising misery in my heart…
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Notes from the Underground”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky from The Brothers Karamazov
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“I didn’t understand that the mockery was deliberately assumed, like a mask; it was the last subterfuge of the kind usual with shy and pure-minded people, whose hearts are subjected to coarse and insistent probing, whose pride will not let them yield until the last minute, and who are afraid to express their feelings.” — Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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So many tender and painful, sweet and bitter, emotions crowd in my soul–yes, there are painful and bitter ones. You cannot dream how bitter it is for me when people don’t understand me, when they mistake what I say, and see it in the wrong light.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, written c. October 1832.
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[…] I feel that soon, very soon, something decisive must happen, that I am nearing the crucial moment of my whole life, am ripe for anything that may come—and perhaps something tranquil and bright, perhaps something menacing, but in any case something inevitable, closely impends. Otherwise my whole life would be a failure. Perhaps it has all been but a sick delirium!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in a letter (March,1854)
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Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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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 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment