Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 19

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• Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Punishment, May

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Numbers, Bird

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• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Success, Player, Men

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

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• He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hatred, Feelings, Gestures

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• We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heaven, Life Is, Embrace

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.348, e-artnow

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• Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Lying, People

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• Beauty will save the world

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Christian, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

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• To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Engineering, May, Strive

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• If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Stronger, Demand

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• I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hungry, Mockery, Satisfied

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.99, Youcanprint

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• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Miracle

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Brotherhood, Facts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.872, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Care, Sometimes, Notes From The Underground

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32), 1864.

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• There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Virtue, Immortality, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wall, Accepting, Consequence

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• I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

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• Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

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

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• Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Fall, Down And

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• I want to suffer so that I may love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, May, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan

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• I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God Knows, Knows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.455, Vintage

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• Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Anxiety

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• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love You, Insanity, Secret

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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