Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 20

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• Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Homeopathy, Strongest, Dose

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• ... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hard Work, Years, Purpose

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Liars, Lying, Wrath

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• Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, People, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.591, Macmillan

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• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Heart, Widows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.130, Vintage

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• The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Deception, Despair

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• Life [had] replaced logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Logic, Replaced

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• We are citizens of eternity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Citizens, Eternity

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• Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  School, Angel, Race

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.314, First Avenue Editions

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• There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Light, Ideas, Facts

  "Complete Collected Works, Vol. 9". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1895.

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• If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughing, Good Person, Theologian

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• If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  America, Laughing, Noses

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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• Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Talking, Privilege, Nonsense

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

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• It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Return, Tickets, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.373, First Avenue Editions

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• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Miracle, Facts, Realist

  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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• Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Men, Gentleman

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Suffering, Earth

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, III, 1877.

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Feelings, Social

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspiration, Character, Giving

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• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Praise, Insisting

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