Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, God Knows Quotes

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

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Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

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God is the pain of the fear of death

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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

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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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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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

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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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

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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

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To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

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