Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Knowing Quotes

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

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They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

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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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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

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

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I want to suffer so that I may love.

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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

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Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

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