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#1

“I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

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#2

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations

715 likes

#3

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

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2974 likes

#4

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society

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#5

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

tags: life, story

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#6

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: change, fear-of-change

2280 likes

#7

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

1403 likes

#8

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#9

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#10

“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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#11

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

2156 likes

#12

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

858 likes

#13

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#14

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: crime, punishment

894 likes

#15

“Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

665 likes

#16

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

677 likes

#17

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society

528 likes

#18

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#19

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#20

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: conscious, disease, fyodor-dostoyevsky, illness, intellect, notes-from-the-underground, reason

280 likes

#21

“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: animals, creation, destruction-of-nature, mankind

276 likes

#22

“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

257 likes

#23

“Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#24

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: dreams, sorrow

181 likes

#25

“I utter what you would not dare think.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#26

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

1653 likes

#27

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#28

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

5454 likes

#29

“My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.”
― Sylvia Plath

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#30

“I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the centre of empty air.”
― Sylvia Plath

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