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1. "We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!" ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
2. "He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there..." ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
3. "We've already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge - like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself." ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
4. "The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!" ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
5. "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." ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
6. "Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness." ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
7. "You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings" ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski
8. "A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments." ~ Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski

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