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“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

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“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

“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

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I found myself wondering why I had once been a human being...How can others understand what I feel? They cannot--unless they have experienced the very same thing.”
― Atsushi Nakajima, The Moon Over The Mountain

“My bardzo mało rozumiemy. Żyjemy, nie znając przyczyny. Nie znając przyczyny, potulnie znosimy przeciwności losu. Takie jest przeznaczenie - nas, istot żyjących.”
― Atsushi Nakajima, Opowiadania japońskie

“El instante más miserable, furioso y horrible es cuando veo a través de mi espíritu humano las crueles acciones que he cometido y reflexiono sobre mi propio destino”
― Atsushi Nakajima, El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre

“因为害怕自己并非明珠而不敢刻苦琢磨，又因为有几分相信自己是明珠，而不能与瓦砾碌碌为伍，遂逐渐远离世间，疏避人群，结果在内心不断地用愤懑和羞怒饲育着自己懦弱的自尊心。世上每个人都是驯兽师，而那匹猛兽，就是每人各自的性情。对我而言，猛兽就是这自大的羞耻心了。老虎正是它。我折损自己，施苦妻儿，伤害朋友。末了，我就变成了这副与内心一致的模样。
如今想起来，我真是空费了自己那一点仅有的才能，徒然在口头上卖弄着什么“人生一事不为则太长，欲为一事则太短”的警句，可事实是，唯恐暴露才华不足的卑怯的畏惧，和厌恶钻研刻苦的惰怠，就是我的全部了。但远比我缺乏才华，可由于专念磨砺而成就堂堂诗家的，也颇不乏其人。成为老虎后的今天，我才总算看到了这一点。

——中岛敦《山月记》”
― Atsushi Nakajima, 山月記 [Sangetsuki]