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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: communication, confusion
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    tags: indifference, suicide
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Kōbō Abe
    “Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
    ― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love, world
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me."

    Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?"

    Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
    tags: religion
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    Anthony Everitt
    “Turn not your country’s hand against your country’s heart!”
    ― Anthony Everitt, Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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    George Eliot
    “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: inspirational, life, thoughtful
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    Walter Scott
    “For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
    ― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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