Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 22

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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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• Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Light, Environmental

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Liars, Lying, Wrath

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• I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taken, Feet, Gentleman

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Sick, Spiteful

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• I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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• If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughing, Good Person, Theologian

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Mean

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.104, Macmillan

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• How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, Men, Doe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.6, Vintage

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• There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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  Happiness, Miracle, Forever

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• We are citizens of eternity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Citizens, Eternity

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• It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Atheism, Taste

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• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

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  Live Life, Mean, Years

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• If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faults, Alive, Ifs

  "The Idiot".

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• Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Atonement, Achieve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.403, Oxford University Press

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• Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, People, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.591, Macmillan

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• Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Crime Books, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

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  Happiness, Men, Unhappy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.212, 谷月社

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• Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Men, Gentleman

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• What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Ridiculous, Talent

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• And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Germany

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• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Heart, Widows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.130, Vintage

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• It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Return, Tickets, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.373, First Avenue Editions

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