Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

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Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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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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The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

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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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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

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I have a plan-to go mad.

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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

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