Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, People Quotes, Boredom Quotes

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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With love one can live even without happiness.

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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

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...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

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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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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

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