Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Pride Quotes, Greatness Quotes

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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

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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

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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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It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

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... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

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Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

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They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

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

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Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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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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...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

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And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

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