Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...
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Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
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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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I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.
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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.
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...что слишком сознавать - это болезнь, настоящая, полная болезнь.
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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all–embracing and universal.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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The Russian soul is a dark place.
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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
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With love one can live even without happiness.
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.