Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Love Quotes, Children Quotes

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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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

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Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

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I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

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With love one can live even without happiness.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

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In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

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