Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Rights Quotes

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

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Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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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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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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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

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Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

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