Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
Quotes to Explore
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
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Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
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As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.
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I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
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I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
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The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.
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Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.
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Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us.
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From the outback to the world.
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The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
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I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
