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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[a] (/ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj] ( listen); 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881),[b] sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of realistic philosophical and religious themes.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Deceiving Others, Deeply, Ingrained, Lying, Truth

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness.

Real, Gentleman, Illness, Become, Tell

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Real, Illness, Conscious, Thorough

. . . to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

Asleep, Children, Earth, Fear, Like, Mother

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Love, May, Suffer, Suffering, Want

. . . one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Imagination, Say, Say Anything, Thing, World

God knows what is in me in place of me.

God, God Knows, Knows, Place

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

Complicated, Forget, Motive, Motives, Never Forget

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

Forgiveness, Fall, People, Blame

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Drunk, Lie, Lying, May, Way

If God is dead, everything is allowed.

Allowed, Dead, Everything, God, God Is Dead, Ifs

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Air, Believe, Bring, Fresh, Life, Punishment

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Break, Chaos, Deep Thought, Pleasant, Right, Wrong

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Bow, Bowed, Humanity, Punishment, Suffering

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Everyday, Grey, Hero, Masters

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then. . . Well, then I woke up.

Compressed, Heart, Sorrow, Wells

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Approach, Away, Gambling, Jingle, Jingles, Two

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

Autumn, Cold, Dream, Fall, Tottering, Wilt

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Accept, Accepting, God, Rebel, World

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Happiest, Looks, Man, Manage, Manages, Men

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