Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

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Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

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

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

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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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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

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