Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 11

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• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Home, Years

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• But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

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  People, Laughing

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• I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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  Disease, Consciousness, Genuine

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• Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tails, Speak

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.289, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

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  Dream, Heart, Desire

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

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  Men, Way, Facts

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• People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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  Punishment, Ideas, Numbers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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  Fear, Deep Thought, Study

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• Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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  Beauty, Heart, Fighting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

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  Men, Deep Thought, He Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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• You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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  Stupid, Punishment, Asking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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  Happiness, Love You, What Matters

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

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  Two, Perspective, Formulas

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• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

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  People, Gone, World

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

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  Beast, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

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  Men, Race, Effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.439, Bantam Classics

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• The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

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  Religious, Atheist, Talking

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• I'm drunk but truthful.

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  Drunk, Truthful

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

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  Love, Dream, Persistence

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• Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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  Men, Looks, Manage

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.481, Random House

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• One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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  Men, Laughing, Good Man

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• I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

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  Forever, Soul, Mind

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• What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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  Reality, People, Tragedy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

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