Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
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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.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
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Love life more than the meaning of it?
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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.
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If there is no God, then I am God.
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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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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!
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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
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Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.