"Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne."
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"The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent."
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"--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me."
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"I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is."
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"Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth."
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"Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful."
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"To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character."
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"... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person"
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"Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity."
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"I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me."
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"And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?"
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"Catch several hares and you won't catch one."
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"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."
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"Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!"
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"Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself."
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"It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience."
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"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once."
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"Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?"
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"Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!"
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"It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man."
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