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Action(s)
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Atheism
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Christianity
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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Civilization
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
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Cynicism
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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Deception/Lying
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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Goals
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Gratitude
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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Habits
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Happiness
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Hope
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Humanity
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Ideas
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Illness, Disease, Sickness
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Laughter
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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.
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Loss
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
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Love
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Memory
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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Perception
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Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Praise
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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Purpose
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Books by and about Fyodor Dostoyevsky