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I've never been a coward at heart, although I've always been a coward in action;
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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To think too much is a disease.
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mental-illness
overthinking
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!...
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delight
wonder
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Everything passes, only truth remains.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The Russian soul is a dark place.
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russians
souls
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
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power
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
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misery
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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day o..
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harmony
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
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miracles
superstition
witchcraft
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ykhyl ly 'n lrjl l`Zm lbd 'n ysh`rw `l~ hdhh l'rD bHzn `Zym
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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God preserve you, my dear boy, from ever asking forgiveness for a fault from a woman you love. From one you love especially, however greatly you may have been in fault. For a woman--devil only knows what to make of a woman: I know something about them, anyway. But try acknowledging you are in fault to a woman. Say, "I am sorry, forgive me," and a shower of reproaches will follow! Nothing will make her forgive you simply and directly, she'll..
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ay hych mydnyd khh gr shm gywtyn r bh jlw SHnh awrdhyd w an r b yn shdmny w ftkhr brfrshth w bh asmn rsndhyd
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Reason is the slave of passion.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
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wisdom
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It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that it's an idea made up by men? Then, if He doesn't exist, man is the king of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God? That's the question. I always come back to that. Who is man going to love then? To whom will he be thankful? To whom will he sing the hymn? Rakitin laughs. ..
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good
moral-law
relativism
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Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought that refused to take shape. Before him was the shining sky, below him the lake, around him the horizon, bright and infinite, as if it went on forever. For a long time he looked and suffered. He remembered now how he had stretched out his arms to that bright, infinite blue and wept. What had tormented him was that he was a tota..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so ..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I'm a master of speaking silently--all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.
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ridiculous
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair ... Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd ..
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fantasy
reality
shadow
time
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter - this is what life is, herein lies its task.
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life
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |