Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 18

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Winter, Boys

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• Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Moments, Everlasting

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• And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Suffering, Trying

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.14, Google Publishing

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• Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Lying, People

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• I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Heart, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

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• The Russian soul is a dark place.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dark, Soul, Dark Places

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• It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Wonderful, Young

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Lying, Delightful

  "Crime and Punishment".

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• in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Skeletons, Skins

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• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Eight, Years

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• --you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Done, Hurt Me

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.423, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Men, Liberty

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• Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Secret

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 11 (page 35), 1864.

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• But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, One Day

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.289, Macmillan

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• They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Heart, Sick

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

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• I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God Knows, Knows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.455, Vintage

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• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Success, Player, Men

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

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• It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Home, Widows, Cleanliness

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• Life [had] replaced logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Logic, Replaced

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• Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Opposites, Able

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• I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Bores You, People

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• I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Would Be, Ridiculous

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.263, Modern Library

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• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Miracle, Facts, Realist

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Light, Ideas, Facts

  "Complete Collected Works, Vol. 9". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1895.

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