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35 quotes from the following 6 books:

House of the Dead, The (1860)

Notes from Underground (1864)

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Demons (1873)

Adolescent, The (1874)

Brothers Karamazov, The (1880)

Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Desensitized Intellectual
A Liberal Dreamer's Sorrow
Adolescent Quest For Beauty
Bearing The Underground In One's Soul
Blood And Power Make A Man Drunk
Complications Of Crime And Punishment In A Theocracy
Confusing Socialism With Christianity
Do Not Lie To Yourself
Flashes Of Nature's Eternal Harmony
God Is The Pain Of The Fear Of Death
Grief Creates Strength
Holding Out Against Common Sense
Incompatible Goals Of The Church And The State
Love As Hate
Love Out Of Fear
Man Does Nothing But Invent God
Man Is Afraid Of Completing The Edifice He Is Constructing
Man Is Not Bound By Reason
Man Needs Unhappiness
Man Strives To Live, Not Just Know
Men Who Are Destined To Act By And Through Others
Nature's Conclusions Are Hard To Accept
Ready-Made Virtue
Secrets A Man Keeps Even From Himself
The Aim Of All Nations Is To Seek For God
The Common People's Sense Of Justice
The Convulsive Manifestation Of A Dead Man's Personality
The Hyperconscious Man
The Inequalities Of Penal Punishment
The Natural Ordering Of Humanity Into A Conservative Material Class And A Transgressing Destructive Class
The Prisoner Feels Not The Sting Of Moral Suffering
There Is No Virtue If There Is No Immortality
Thinking Erodes The Basis For A Man's Revenge
Time Is A Human Construct
We've All Grown Unaccustomed To Life
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Born Sun Nov 11, 1821 in Russia- Moscow

Died Wed Feb 09, 1881 in Russia- St. Petersburg

Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, have had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. He is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived.

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