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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    John Williams
    “Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
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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
    “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: love
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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
    “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
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
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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
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, humanity, sadness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: secrecy
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