Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!
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I have a plan-to go mad.
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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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Without God all things are permitted.
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor