Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Wall Quotes, Accepting Quotes

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

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

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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

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[to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

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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.

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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

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

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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

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