Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Fire Quotes, Hands Quotes

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

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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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Above all, don't lie to yourself.

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

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They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

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

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

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Love life more than the meaning of it?

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

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

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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

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You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

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