Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Pleasures
• Hopelessness

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• My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

  

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• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

  

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• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

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• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  

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• We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
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• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

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• We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

  

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• Iraq's debt to the Russian Federation comes to $8 billion U.S. and as far as the Russian government's position on this, it is not planning any kind of write-off of that debt.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

  

  Al Pacino
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• Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

  

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• Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• Is a position that, if held on to, will certainly wreck the peace process.

  

  Albert Reynolds
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• There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.

  

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• I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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• I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• It was only after we recorded Unknown Pleasures that I could hear and begin to take notice of the words, and it was quite startling then to see how they changed between that album, where they were still quite detached and aggressive, to Closer, which is even darker and not detached at all but really introspective and quite frightening—especially of course when you listen to it in light of what later happened.

  

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  • Changed
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• In times like these, we seek comfort in the little pleasures, things we're glad man invented. It doesn't matter where you're from -- or how you feel.. There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

  

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• Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

  

  Nick Cummins
  • Family
  • Position
  • Conclusion

• The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

  

  Václav Hlavatý
  • Faith
  • Left
  • Explanation

• You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

  

  Daughn Gibson
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• It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Position
  • Pleasures
  • Hopelessness