Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Spring Quotes, Believe Quotes

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

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The soul is healed by being with children.

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I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

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

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Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

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And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

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

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

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Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

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