Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Pain Quotes, Understanding Quotes

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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God is the pain of the fear of death

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He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

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If not reason, then the devil.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

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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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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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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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