Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Spring Quotes, Grief Quotes

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

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...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

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I utter what you would not dare think

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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

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

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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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

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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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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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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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