Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 7

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• We are all happy if we but knew it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happy Love, Ifs

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• Every man needs a place to go to.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Needs, Places To Go

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• The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Deep Thought

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

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• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Equality, Spy, Slavery

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• Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Self Esteem, Compelled

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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• There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Dignity, Worthy

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

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• Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Over You, Watches, Looks

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, First Avenue Editions

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• He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fashion, Hipster, Conceited

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• God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Baby, Heart

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• For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Echoes, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.319, Macmillan

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• My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Done, Truth Is

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• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Want

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• Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tails, Speak

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.289, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Approval, Merit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.263, 谷月社

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• Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

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  Lying, Watches, Deceit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.58, Macmillan

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Logic, Reason

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• To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Progress, Trying

  "Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.

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• It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sunshine, Men, Rays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hope, Deep Thought, Hoping For The Best

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• The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Religious, Atheist, Talking

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• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sad, Men, Seductive

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

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• The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Perspective, Formulas

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• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Laughing, Good Man

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