Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 16

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• An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Artist, Reality, Shining

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• Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.604, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Woe to the man who offends a small child!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Men, Woe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.548, Bantam Classics

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• I am too young and I've loved you too much.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Too Much, Young

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.294, First Avenue Editions

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• In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Romantic, Order, Romance

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• ...chance may do anything.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  May, Chance

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.133, 谷月社

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• How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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  Men, Years, Ideas

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Caring, Lasts, November

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

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• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Suffering, Earth

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, III, 1877.

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• Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Used, Mets, Walking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.9, Google Publishing

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• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

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  Men, Squares, Roots

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• Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Lying, Firsts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.543, Bantam Classics

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• Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sorrow, Commandments

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.77, Macmillan

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• "I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Said

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

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• One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Judging, Oneself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

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  Sleep, Men, Blessing

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• Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Forgotten, Driven

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• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, Humanity, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God Is Dead, Ifs

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• There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

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  Nice, Intelligent, Ideas

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• Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Rebel, World, Accepting

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• One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Men, Praying

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• My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Two, Care

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