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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
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If there is no God, then I am God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.
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Money is coined liberty.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!
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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
A man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ivan is the incarnation of the refusal to be the only one saved. He throws in his lot with the damned and, for their sake, rejects eternity. If he had faith, he could, in fact, be saved, but others would be damned and suffering would continue. There is no possible salvation for the man who feels real compassion.
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
Fyodor Dostoevsky