Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Gambling Quotes, Two Quotes

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

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Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

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

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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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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One can fall in love and still hate.

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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

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You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

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Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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