Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 14

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• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Brain, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

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• There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Useless, Reason, Explaining

  "White Nights and Other Stories".

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• One can fall in love and still hate.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Fall

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• Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, Wish, Use

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.303, Macmillan

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• What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Tragedy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

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• There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nice, Intelligent, Ideas

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• A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, High Standards

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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Deep Thought, He Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Self, People, Feelings

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• Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Vipers, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.141, Macmillan

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• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Squares, Roots

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Blessing

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• I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

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  Mind, Want, Facts

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• One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Giving, Bird

  "The Idiot".

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Imagine, Eternity, Conception

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.389, Modern Library

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• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Illness, Crime

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Likes, Common

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Ideas, World

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Attitude, Views, Earth

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• Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Body

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• Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adversity, Men, Suffering

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• Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Portraits, World, Said

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.80, Vintage

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• Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Lying, Delightful

  "Crime and Punishment".

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Blood, Rivers

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