Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living."
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Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"If there were no God, he would have to be invented."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Love life more than the meaning of it?"
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"It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket."
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"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?"
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"And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn."
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