Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Blessed Quotes

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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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

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If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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How good life is when one does something good and just!

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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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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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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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

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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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Woe to the man who offends a small child!

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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

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