Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 26

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• In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Humanity, Abstract, Humanitarianism

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• I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Father, Heart

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• It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Every Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.14, Vintage

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• You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

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  Love, Children, Heart

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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• I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Sarcasm, Expression

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• they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Drunk, May

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.204, Vintage

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• And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

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  Falling In Love, Sorry, Eye

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• The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Chiefs, Wanted

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, (Ch. V), 1877.

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• Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.41, Google Publishing

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• Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Father, Enemy

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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• Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, People, Heaven

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.208, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Twenties, Cards

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• Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Feet, People

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• [to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• ... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Imagine, Conversation

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment: English and Russian, Illustrated”, p.266

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• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

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  Believe, Love You, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.126, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

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  Forgiving, World, Brothers Karamazov

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

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• Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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  Fire, Hands, Cold

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Needs, Four

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• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God, Jesus, Believe

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• But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

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  Humble, Math, Two

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.124, Modern Library

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• I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Want, Glory

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

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• One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Common Sense, Able

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• On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, July, Bridges

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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