Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Suffering Quotes

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

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I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

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