Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Fall Quotes, Men Quotes

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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

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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

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Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

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The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

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--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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