Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Law Quotes, Two Quotes

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

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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.

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Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

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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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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.

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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.

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After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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Beauty would save the world.

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

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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

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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.

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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

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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.

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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

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