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#1

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#2

“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

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#3

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#4

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice

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#5

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#6

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#7

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering

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#8

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

tags: respect, self-respect

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#9

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights

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#10

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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#11

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

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#12

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#13

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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#14

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: inspirational, love

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#15

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#16

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#17

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

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#18

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

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#19

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#20

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#21

“I kneel into a dream where I am good & loved. I am good. I am loved. My hands have made some good mistakes. They can always make better ones.”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

tags: life-is-moving, movement, my-hands, your-hands

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#22

“What is the word for when the light leaves
the body? What is the word for when it, at
last, returns?”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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