Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Talking Quotes

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

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I utter what you would not dare think

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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

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...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

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With love one can live even without happiness.

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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

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Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

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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 takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

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Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

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