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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Notes from the Underground
I utter what you would not dare think.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Notes from the Underground
So that if a man rejects God, he will have to worship an idol that may be made of wood, gold, or ideas. So those who think they don't need God are really just idol worshipers, and that's what we should call them. But there must be true atheists too; only they're much more dangerous because they come to us with the name of God on their lips . . . There are some people like that, my friends, and there should be.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), The Adolescent (also translated as A Raw Youth)

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