Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Execution Quotes, Littles Quotes

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

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... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

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Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

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The consciousness of life is higher than life.

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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

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What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

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

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I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

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Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

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