Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Two Quotes, Perspective Quotes

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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Trifles, trifles are what matter!

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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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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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Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

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One can fall in love and still hate.

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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

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Right attitudes produces right action

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