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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings - of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If not reason, then the devil.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
...что слишком сознавать - это болезнь, настоящая, полная болезнь.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I'm drunk but truthful.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If there is no God, then I am God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
Fyodor Dostoevsky