Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

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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Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

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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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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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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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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

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originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

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Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

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

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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

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I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

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Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

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

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