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“Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

“a fool with a heart and no brains is as unhappy a fool as a fool with with brains but no heart. An old truth. I am fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we're both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“and I kept imagining someone like you, kind, honest, good, and as silly as you are, who would suddenly come up and say, 'You're not guilty, Natasya Filippovna, and I adore you!' And I sometimes dreamed so much that I'd go out of my mind... And then this one would come: he'd stay for two months a year, dishonor me, offend me, inflame me, debauch me, leave me - a thousand times I wanted to drown myself in the pond, but I was base, I had no courage”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“And could you shoot yourself?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Trusting no men as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Peculiarity is not a vice; on the contrary, it sometimes attracts the feminine character.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Meek One