Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Hope Quotes, Deep Thought Quotes

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

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Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

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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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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

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Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

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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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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

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

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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

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