Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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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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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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