Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Hymns Quotes, Shame Quotes

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

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Money is coined liberty.

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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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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

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If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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Reason is the slave of passion.

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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

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You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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