So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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It’s easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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