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Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Philosophy

1821–1881 Russia

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

The Idiot (1868)

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.

Personal correspondence (1839)

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