Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Two Quotes, Needs Quotes

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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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

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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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