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    Herbert Marcuse
    “Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.”
    ― Herbert Marcuse
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    Herbert Marcuse
    “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free”
    ― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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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
    “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
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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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 soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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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
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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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
    “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 in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: honesty, integerity
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: humanity
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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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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated
    tags: respect, self-respect
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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
    “You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: crime, punishment
    875 likes



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