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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Battlefield Beauty Devil Fighting God Heart Man Mysterious Terrible Well

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Because Come Left Much Things Unhappiness Unsaid World

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Cease Hope Live Without

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Afraid Away Decent Decent Man Even Every Himself His Man Mind Number Stored Such Things Tell Things Which

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Invaded Last Modest People Privacy Refuge Sarcasm Soul

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The soul is healed by being with children.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Being Children Healed Soul

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Everything God Permitted

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Anxiety Constant Find Free He Long Man More Possible Quickly Remains Someone Than Worship

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Calls Fool Himself In My Opinion Least Man Month Once Opinion Who

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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Belief Continuation Depended Destroy Dry Every Force Immortality Life Living Love Mankind Once Only Only Love Up Were Which World Would You

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 11th, 1821

Died: February 9th, 1881

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