Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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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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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

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Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

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

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