Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Independent Quotes, Punishment Quotes

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

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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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Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

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I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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The world will be saved by beauty.

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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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