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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Everything passes, only the truth remains.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything….”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Love life . . . regardless of logic, and it’s only then one will understand the meaning of it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is usually made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Demons
“every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Be the sun and all will see you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“How good life is when one does something good and just!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
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