Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

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• The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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  Escaping, Way, Prison

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• When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

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  Moving On, Heart, Past

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  The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

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  Lying, Alive, Criminal Mind

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Good Night, God, Stars

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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  Truth, Honesty, Punishment

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.

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• 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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  Love, Spiritual, Animal

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

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  Caring, Problem, Gave Up

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

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  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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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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  Lying, Humanity, Secret

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  It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

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  Unhappy, Paradise, Fool

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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  Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

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  Hard Work, Love Is, Long

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.428, Bantam Classics

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• If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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  Confidence, Respect, Self Esteem

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• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

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  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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  Matter, Able, Dare

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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  What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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  Love, Life, Suffering

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
  Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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  Fear, People, Steps

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• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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  Men, Literature, Months

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• Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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  Evil, Politics, Easier

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• It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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  Life Changing, Intelligence, Crime And Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

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• Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

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  Feet, Bears, Safe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.452, Google Publishing

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• If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

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  Earth, Rational, Happens

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