Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Ideas Quotes

But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

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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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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

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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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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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Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

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All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

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Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

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If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

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

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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

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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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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

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The soul is healed by being with children.

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