Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

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Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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

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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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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

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You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

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Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

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