Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Immortality Quotes

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

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Everything passes, only truth remains.

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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

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Above all, don't lie to yourself.

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I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

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Trifles, trifles are what matter!

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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

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