Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

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

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

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Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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The consciousness of life is higher than life.

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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

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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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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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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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Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

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