To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
("Notes from Underground")
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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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Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything - that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
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