In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an … - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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