Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

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"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."

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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

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"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!"

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"A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression."

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