Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 16

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Too Much, Consciousness, Sickness

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• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, World, Lasts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Stupid, Believe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

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• Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Lying, Firsts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.543, Bantam Classics

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• The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, Sin

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forgiving

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.523, Vintage

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• It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Home, Widows, Cleanliness

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• Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Grief, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.106, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, One Day

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unbelievable, Interest, Esteem

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• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Goes On

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Consciousness

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• Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Men, Liberty

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Despair, Hopelessness, Pleasure

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Discovery, Knowing, World

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

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• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

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  Lonely, Eight, Years

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Moon, Weaving, Mystery

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.274, Google Publishing

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• In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Simple, People, Wicked

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.9, Macmillan

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Judging, Oneself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

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  World, Earth, Absurd

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Pride, Sarcasm

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• That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Men, Sensitive Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.125, Vintage

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• The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Reality, Honest

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