Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• I utter what you would not dare think

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Dare

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

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• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Deep Thought, World

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

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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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• People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, People, Well Known

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.269, Oxford Paperbacks

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• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Greatness, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.427, 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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• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Want

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• One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life, Disappear, Console

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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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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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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.

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  Hurt, Doctors, Paris

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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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• 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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• A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Effort, Way

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• There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Dignity, Worthy

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

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Purpose, He Man

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others

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

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• I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Great Person, Persons

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