Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 8

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• I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Loneliness

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

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• Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.254, Oxford University Press

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• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Home, Years

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• Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Heart, Angel

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Monsters, Misery

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• Everything seems stupid when it fails.

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  Stupid, Failing, Seems

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.460, 谷月社

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• I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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  Men, Long, Worry

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.405, Bantam Classics

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• Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

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• Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

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  Love, Animal, Light

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• If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Responsible, Ifs

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• The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.128, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Blame, Oneself

  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.2157, e-artnow

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• originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Self Esteem, Struggle, Adversity

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• Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Causes

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• All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Possessing

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• Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

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  Lying, Deep Thought, Achieve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.335, Northwestern University Press

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• We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Never Forget, Complicated, Motive

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• My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

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  Healing, Thinking, Sick

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• Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Sorrow, Wells

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

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• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

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  Stupidity, Honest, Clarity

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• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

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  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

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• Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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  Beauty, Heart, Fighting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Worship, Prophet

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• They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Heart, Infinite

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing

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