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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Over You, Watches, Looks
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, First Avenue Editions

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Memories, Men, May

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Loneliness
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ocean, Echoes, World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.319, Macmillan

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Want

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spiritual, Prayer, Real
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Monsters, Misery

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mother, Baby, Heart

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Watches, Deceit
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.58, Macmillan

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Done, Truth Is

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Religious, Atheist, Talking

...chance may do anything.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
May, Chance
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.133, 谷月社

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Progress, Trying
"Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistake, Men, Errors
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two, Perspective, Formulas

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope, Deep Thought, Hoping For The Best

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupid, Failing, Seems
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.460, 谷月社

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Life, Fear

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent, Men, Choices

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Firsts, Blame, Oneself
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Equality, Spy, Slavery

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Long, Worry
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.405, Bantam Classics

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sad, Men, Seductive
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Stupid, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.116, Modern Library

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self Esteem, Struggle, Adversity

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