"We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
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"Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass."
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"Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me."
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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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"Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars."
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"
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"One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil."
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"I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness."
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"At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me."
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"I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!"
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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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"I utter what you would not dare think"
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"When reason fails, the devil helps!"
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"For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it."
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"And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live."
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"Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!"
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."
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"For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?"
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"To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well."
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