Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 3

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• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Literature, Months

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

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• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Men

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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• Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hell, Hopelessness, Entrances

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Love Is, Suffering

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

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• To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Blood, Soul, Whole

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Men, Ungrateful

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• The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, God, Soul

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.56, Macmillan

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Beautiful, Memories

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• Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Confidence, Respect, Self Esteem

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

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

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• When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Conscience, Appease

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• I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Believe, Perfect

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• Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Desire, Show Me, Something Better

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.126, Modern Library

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• If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Doe, Ifs

  "My heroes are driven by God, but I'm glad my society isn't" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Wish, Care

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

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• I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Struggle, Needs, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.88, Vintage

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• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Religious, Nature

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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