I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad … - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I. . . I wanted to have the daring. . . and I killed her.

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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Conceited, Coxcombs, Fashion, Hipster, Sincerely, Varied

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Calculate, Like, Men, Trouble, Troubles

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Love, Love Is, Suffer, Suffering

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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