Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
("Crime and Punishment")
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship
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But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such a temptation? Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracles and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonizing spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of their heart? ... and thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to god and not ask for a miracle.
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Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
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They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy.
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Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief-all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man... that it's better to hang oneself.
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