Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Real Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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

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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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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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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

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

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

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