Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Children Quotes, Humanity Quotes

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

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I am too young and I've loved you too much.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

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The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

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God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

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

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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

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Beauty will save the world

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Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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

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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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