"On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering."
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"I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever."
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"It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look."
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"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
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"Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too."
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"Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness."
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"Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact."
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"You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman."
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"Trifles, trifles are what matter!"
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"I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel."
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"Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends."
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"Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov"
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"After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side."
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"But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate."
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"Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it."
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"Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation."
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"My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy."
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"... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position."
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"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up."
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"Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
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