Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Spring Quotes, Blue Quotes

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

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For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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

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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

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If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

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

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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