Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The righteous man departs, but his light remains.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him--Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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