Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

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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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• Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

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  Inspiration, Heart, Know How

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.841, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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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

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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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!

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  Good Night, God, Stars

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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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• For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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  Ocean, Echoes, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.319, Macmillan

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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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• To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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  Persons

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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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• If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

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  Overcoming, World, Want

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

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• A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

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  Proof, Hundred, Suspicion

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.444, Google Publishing

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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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• 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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• If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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  Atheist, Doe, Ifs

  "My heroes are driven by God, but I'm glad my society isn't" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2005.

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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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• Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

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  Numbers, Wealth, Can Do

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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

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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

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  Earth, Rational, Happens

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• He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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  Hero, Everyday, Masters

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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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• 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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