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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Escaping, Way, Prison

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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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• 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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• Everything passes, only truth remains.

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  Remains

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.731, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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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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  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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• Hell is the inability to love.

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  Inability To Love, Inability, Hell

  "It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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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 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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  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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• 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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• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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  Being Happy, Gratitude, Men

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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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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• Be the sun and all will see you.

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  Inspirational, Sun

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment”, p.576, First Avenue Editions

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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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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

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  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

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  Horse, Rabbits, Hundred

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment: English and Russian, Illustrated”, p.708

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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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• I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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  Sun, Brothers Karamazov, Knows

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

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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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• Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

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  Climbing, Challenges, Suffering

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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

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

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Suffering

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

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