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Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea — he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility… Do get up from your knees and sit down, I beg you, these posturings are false, too.
Part I, Book I: A Nice Little Family, Ch. 2 : The Old Buffoon; as translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p. 44
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1866)

“Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. "Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!" — that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

“Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha The Gambler

The Gambler (1866)

“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As quoted in Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane (1950) by Harold Victor Martin.
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I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.
Last Notebook (1880–1881), Literaturnoe nasledstvo, 83: 696; as quoted in Kenneth Lantz, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia (2004), p. 21, hdn ISBN 0-313-30384-3

“It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha Notes from Underground

Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 8)
Notes from Underground (1864)

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky kniha The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“Faith is not in power but in truth.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)