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Fyodor Dostoevsky [1821-1881] Russian

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.

God, Happiness, Fear, Beauty, Death, Good, Great, Hope, Men, Money, Poetry, Power, Women, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.		101
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.		102
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.	Fear	103
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.	Great, Happiness	104
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.	Hope	105
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.	Happiness	106
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.		107
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.		108
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.	Good	109
The soul is healed by being with children.		110
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?		111
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.	Happiness	112
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.	Men, Women, Work	113
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.	Beauty, God	114
If there is no God, everything is permitted.	God	115
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!	Power	116
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.	God	117
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.		118
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.		119
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.		120
Realists do not fear the results of their study.	Fear	121
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.	Money	122
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.		123
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.	Death	124
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.		125
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.	Poetry	126
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.		201

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