On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ 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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