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The Brothers Karamazov quotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Everything passes, only the truth remains.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Love life . . . regardless of logic, and it’s only then one will understand the meaning of it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Strive to love your neighbor actively and indefatigably.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Forgive me, Grusha, for my love, for ruining you, too, with my love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it—which is what matters most.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“How good life is when one does something good and just!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“fools are made for wise men's profit.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“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
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The Brothers Karamazov
“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“I am not rebelling against my God; I simply ‘don't accept His world.’”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“God sets us nothing but riddles.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
“And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all. ”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
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