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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything..."

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

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