Notes from the Undergroundwriting · 1864DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy—is that very 'most advantageous advantage' which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett, 1918Verified quotation — claim 01“I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett, 1918
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The Brothers Karamazovwriting · 1880DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky · trans. Constance Garnett, 1912
A Writer's Diary (Dnevnik pisatelya), including the March 1877 number on the Jewish question and the 1876-77 articles on the Eastern question and Constantinoplewriting · 1873-1881DirectNo passage is mapped to this claim. Sources are listed for provenance; a quotation appears only when it has been verified for the specific claim.
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