Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Children Quotes

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

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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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Above all, do not lie to yourself.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

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What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

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

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

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The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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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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Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

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There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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