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1d9d7c7 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e13fc60 If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6d48fe1 I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2096d32 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8a7e0c1 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? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
d419636 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
441508e 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.. emotional-pain nostalgia Fyodor Dostoyevsky
bd46a09 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5cadf8f 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4b0e8f3 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4a43a83 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27648a8 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9ef01e9 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.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
637a6a0 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
95faaa6 Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9aea5a6 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? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5674efc 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... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3de190b 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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
dd7f7bc 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.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b07c89c 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27561b3 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.... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fa302c7 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." Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fad897a I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22e6d3a for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous Fyodor Dostoyevsky
bd26773 Quando se ama, nao dura muito o ressentimento. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8dcaa68 Le plus monstrueux des monstres est le monstre a nobles sentiments. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
f175163 Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2bcf6b3 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
da7634a Dragostea abstracta pentru umanitate ascunde aproape intotdeauna o iubire egoista fata de tine insuti. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
f4f6259 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
effd2ac 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
cffa40d 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5f05cb6 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e4fb9ae 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.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
be34cf3 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e61c10d For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27b15c4 Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything... . Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a68dea1 Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind as feel instinctively with the full force of his emotions that he could never again communicate with these people in a great gush of feeling, as he had just now, or in any way whatever. estrangement Fyodor Dostoyevsky
94a4f73 I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness -- a real thorough-going illness. For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
439bbfa Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread--and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
f01a0b0 Another time, twice, in fact, I tried hard to be in love. I suffered, too, gentlemen, I assure you. In the depth of my heart there was no faith in my suffering, only a faint stir of mockery, but yet I did suffer, and in the real, orthodox way; I was jealous, beside myself... and it was all from ENNUI, gentlemen, all from ENNUI; inertia overcame me. You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fa65175 In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. war Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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