Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Imagine Quotes

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

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If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

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- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

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And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

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But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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To think too much is a disease.

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

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I have a plan-to go mad.

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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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My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

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