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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian Novelist
Born: Nov 11, 1821
Died: Feb 9, 1881
About Every First God Love Man
Related authors: Boris Pasternak Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov Romain Gary Yevgeny Zamyatin
The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Soul Healed Being Children
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Privacy Soul People Invaded Refuge Modest Sarcasm Last
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky
World Unsaid Come Because Left Unhappiness Much Things
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
God Man Heart Devil Beauty Fighting Battlefield Mysterious Well Terrible
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Fool Once Month Cleverest Himself Calls Opinion Least In My Opinion Who
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
People Sometimes Word First Before Strangers Once Sight Has-Been Somehow Perfect Spoken Been Encounter Begin Interest Us Who Even Suddenly
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Achievement Lie Does
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love God See Someone Him Intended To Love Means
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! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power Matters Those Dare One Thing Able Given Only Only One Thing Pick Up Themselves Lower Who Thing
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Man Every Enough Ought Would See Fond Troubles Count Counted He Counting Joys Does His Provided Lot Up Them
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Only Troubles Count He Joys Likes Does His
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Good You Man Good Man Before Say Laugh He Like Know Him His May Confidently Anything
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Women Men Men And Women Lose Mad Raving Go Existence Deprived Meaningful Reason Stark
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Death Men Worship Those Tortured Martyrs Prophets Accept Them Whom Slay
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Old About Something Something New New Said Subject Cannot
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life Love You World Living Every Once Destroy Would Immortality Only Only Love Force Dry Continuation Were Up Depended Which Mankind Belief
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 Dostoevsky
Life Man Made First Half Nothing Though Seems Fact Habits He Up Accumulate In Fact Second
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Fear Mind Every Tell Himself His Decent Afraid Decent Man Stored Which Such Things Even Away Things Number
Realists do not fear the results of their study. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear Results Study Realists
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money Worth Gentleman Beneath Everything Must About Emotion Troubling He Real Loses Owns Far Show Even Hardly
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Must Spirit Poetry Write Impression Tranquility Order Novel
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Anxiety Free Long Worship Possible Find Constant Someone More Remains He Quickly Than Agonizing

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