Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Ideas Quotes

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

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I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

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We are all happy if we but knew it.

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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

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

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I am crazy about mysterious things.

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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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

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My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

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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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God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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