Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Live Life Quotes

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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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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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

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There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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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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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

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Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

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