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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!'
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I utter what you would not dare think.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky