Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Murder Quotes

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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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

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My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

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I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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I want to suffer so that I may love.

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Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

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They were like two enemies in love with one another.

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In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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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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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

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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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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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