Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" Woe to the man who offends a small child! "
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Children , Abuse
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" The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. "
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Alive
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" Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all. "
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Prison
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" You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings "
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Satan
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" People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel. "
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Cruelty
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" Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything. "
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Acceptance
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" Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. "
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Consciousness
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" Change is what people fear most. "
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Positive , Creating
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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11-11-1821 09-02-1881 Novelist, Philosopher citation
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