Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 5

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• I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sun, Brothers Karamazov, Knows

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

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• I utter what you would not dare think

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Dare

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

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• Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Acting, Enough

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• The world will be saved by beauty.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Saved

  The Idiot pt. 3, ch. 5 (1868) (translation by Alan Myers)

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• It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sunshine, Men, Rays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Sorrow, Wells

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

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• Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Goal, Mind, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.452, Vintage

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• I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Doctors, Paris

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• Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Ridiculous, Miserable

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

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• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sports, Hockey, Suffering

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

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• He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fashion, Hipster, Conceited

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Power, Feet, Matter

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• At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Art, Firsts, Existence

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• When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Monsters, Misery

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• Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Definitions

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• Hell is the inability to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inability To Love, Inability, Hell

  "It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Luxury, Easy

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• The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Children, Doubt

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• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Glowing, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

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• Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  What Matters, Discovery, Life Is

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Education, Memories

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

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• Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Talking, Privilege

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sweet, Love You, Sorrow

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