Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

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• Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

  

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• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

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• Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

  

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• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  

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• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  

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• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

  

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• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

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• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

  

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• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  

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• The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

  

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• The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  

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• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

  

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• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

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• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  

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• Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

  

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• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

  

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• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Dust
  • Ideals
  • Fragments