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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot (1868)

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

Notes from Underground (1864)

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

There is always an element of suffering even in the happiness of the Russian People, and without it their happiness is incomplete.

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