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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“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
“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
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Everything passes, only the truth remains.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”
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
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“How good life is when one does something good and just!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Idiot
“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
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
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
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
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“every man must have somewhere to turn...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“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
“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
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
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“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
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”
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
“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“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
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however...”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“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
“so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“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
“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
“Be the sun and all will see you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Crime and Punishment
“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“Forgive me, Grusha, for my love, for ruining you, too, with my love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
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
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Demons
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