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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes: The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
         

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.


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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.



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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.



Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.



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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.



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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.



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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.



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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.



Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.



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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.



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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.





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The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.




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If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.



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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.



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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.



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I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.



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I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.



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Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.



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I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.



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no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.




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