Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Fall Quotes, Eye Quotes

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

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An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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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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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

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Life [had] replaced logic.

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My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

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Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

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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.

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The Russian soul is a dark place.

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I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

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