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• Beauty would save the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Deep Thought, World, Save The World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

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• If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Stronger, Demand

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• Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Europe, Russia, Asia

  "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

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• Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Water

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 19), 1918.

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• Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Bees, Doe, Way

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• Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

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

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• In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Food, Feet, Libertarian

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Homeopathy, Strongest, Dose

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• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Going Away

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• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love You, Insanity, Secret

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Beauty will save the world

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Christian, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Engineering, May, Strive

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• If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspiration, Character, Giving

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• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Praise, Insisting

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• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Miracle

  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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• Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laziness, Results, Ifs

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• He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grieving, Accepting, Condemnation

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.57, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

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• To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Care, Sometimes, Notes From The Underground

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32), 1864.

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• Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, His Love, Bears

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.187, Macmillan

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Compass, Harmony

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• I want to suffer so that I may love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, May, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan

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