Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

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And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

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It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

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You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

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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

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I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

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If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

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