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Do not be afraid of anything, never be afraid, and do not grieve. Just let repentance not slacken in you, and God will forgive everything. There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that the Lord will not forgive one who truly repents of it. A man even cannot commit so great a sin as would exhaust God's boundless love. How could there be a sin that exceeds God's love? Only take care that you repent without ceasing, and chase a..
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Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.
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society
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Rather than go preaching to people about what they ought to be, show them through your own example. Carry it out yourselves in practice, and everyone will follow you.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Zdes' D'iavol s Bogom boretsia, a pole bitvy - serdtsa liudei.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance. That is what is mortifying! Five minutes, only five minutes too late! Had I come five minutes earlier, the moment would have passed away like a cloud, and it would never have entered her head again. And it would have ended by her understanding it all. But now again empty rooms, and me alone. Here the pendulum is ticking; it does not care, it has no pit..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he, too, is a criminal, exactly the same as the one who stands before him, and that he is perhaps most guilty of all for the crime of the one standing before him.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart and fear less.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one's soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living, tangible in one's immaterial dreams! And is it delusion?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different, from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely personal and unconcerned with other people, but so important to him that he seemed, as it were, to forget other on account of it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his r..
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emotional-pain
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Kako mozete znati sto ce znaciti taj dodir jedne osobe s drugom u sudbini dodirnute osobe? Jer, tu je cijeli zivot i nebrojeno mnostvo njegovih ogranaka skrivenih od nasih pogleda.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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how easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one's self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But is it possible to believe in the devil, if one hasn't the slightest belief in God?' Stavrogin laughed out loud. 'Oh yes, entirely possible, that's as common as can be,' Tibon raised his eyes and smiled, too.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But the trouble was that the hysterics could not go on for ever, and (I am writing the loathsome truth) lying face downwards on the sofa with my face thrust into my nasty leather pillow, I began by degrees to be aware of a far-away, involuntary but irresistible feeling that it would be awkward now for me to raise my head and look Liza straight in the face. Why was I ashamed? I don't know, but I was ashamed.
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what good is faith by force? Besides, proofs are no help to faith, especially material proofs. Thomas believed not because he saw the risen Christ but because he wanted to believe even before that.2 Spiritualists, for example ... I like them so much ... imagine, they think they're serving faith because devils show their little horns to them from the other world. 'This,' they say, 'is a material proof, so to speak, that the other world exist..
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No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?
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But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that's left is two times two makes four? Two times two makes four even without my will. Is that what you call free choice?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest on one, in spite of all his efforts...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages. And what mysteries are solved and revealed
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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A Christian accepts responsibility whatever his environment. God has not grudged you intelligence--you are capable of answering the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my actions?' Therefore, there is no doubt that you are responsible. 'Temptation cannot but enter the world, but woe unto him through whom temptation cometh.' As to your transgression itself, well, many commit similar ones, but go on living in peace with their conscien..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.
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It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in. Porfiry is not such a fool as you think....
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It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on a steel ring... . And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers ... then there must be some other chest or strong-box ... that's worth knowing. Strong-boxes always have keys like that ... but how degrading it all is."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Quando se ama, nao dura muito o ressentimento.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Le plus monstrueux des monstres est le monstre a nobles sentiments.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Dragostea abstracta pentru umanitate ascunde aproape intotdeauna o iubire egoista fata de tine insuti.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth, you know, friends, for as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and that you are to blame for every one and for all things.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two days together, as I know by experience.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.' I don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was that he wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man s..
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything... .
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