Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

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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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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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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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The consciousness of life is higher than life.

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

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I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

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Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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