Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 9

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• Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cutting, Reality, Doe

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• The consciousness of life is higher than life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Consciousness, Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson, Kenneth Lantz (2009). “A Writer's Diary”, p.394, Northwestern University Press

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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

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  Hate, Ideas, Ambitious

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• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Illness, Crime

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• I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Loneliness

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

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• Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Given, Dare

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

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• Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

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  People, Psychology, Serious

  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (2007). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.2176, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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  Mistake, Causes, Ruined

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• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

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  Sad, Men, Seductive

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Friendship, True Love, Love You

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• The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Earth, Absurd

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

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• Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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  Beautiful, Intelligent, Noble

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• There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Useless, Reason, Explaining

  "White Nights and Other Stories".

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• Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kindness, Compassion, Law

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every man needs a place to go to.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Needs, Places To Go

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• But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adventure, Dark, Back Alleys

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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  Gentleman, Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.31, e-artnow

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• God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

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  Mother, Baby, Heart

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• And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

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  Suffering, Wells, Idle

  "Notes From Underground And The Grand Inquisitor".

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• The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Keys

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

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• Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

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  Over You, Watches, Looks

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, First Avenue Editions

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• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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  Independent, Men, Choices

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• My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Done, Truth Is

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