Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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

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If there is no God, then I am God.

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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

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Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

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I'm drunk but truthful.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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