Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Children Quotes, Humanity Quotes

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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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

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... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

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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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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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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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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

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