Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Night Quotes, Skeletons Quotes

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

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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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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

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But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

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I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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I am too young and I've loved you too much.

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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

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

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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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