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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b34104f | Better that you enslave us, but feed us. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 868c8db | wlnkn jmy`an khjwlyn `l~ dhk wHlw@ mthl krtshwf.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ae76b02 | A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continual.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e74fae9 | And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spreading all over the earth? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| db9aea8 | There were rats in it, but Fyodor Pavlovich was not altogether angry with them: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6e2d2df | But he did love people; he lived all his life, it seemed, with complete faith in people, and yet no one ever considered him either naive or a simpleton. There was something in him that told one, that convinced one (and it was so all his life afterwards) that he did not want to be a judge of men, that he would not take judgment upon himself and would not condemn anyone for anything. It seemed, even, that he accepted everything without the le.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 21d889c | Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b50ca8a | Oh, we love to live among people and to inform these people at once of everything, even our most infernal and dangerous ideas; we like sharing with people, and, who knows why, we demand immediately, on the spot, that these people respond to us at once with the fullest sympathy, enter into all our cares and concerns, nod in agreement with us, and never cross our humor. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f57d1cb | When you're older, you will see yourself what significance age has upon convictions. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3192177 | Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. 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. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all lo.. | love | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| fd29e8c | Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1c8c626 | There is a good deal of posturing here, of romantic frenzy, of wild Karamazovian unrestraint and sentimentality--yes, and also something else, gentlemen of the jury, something that cries out in the soul, that throbs incessantly in his mind, and poisons his heart unto death; this something is conscience, gentlemen of the jury, the judgment, the terrible pangs of conscience! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f184433 | Yes, I was kind, brave, and honest then. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5963d79 | through the inscrutable decrees of Providence everything has its recompense, and a visible calamity sometimes brings with it a great, if invisible, profit. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9a10889 | Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, SOMETIMES, not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous. And if so, if there can be such a case, the whole principle falls into dust. What do you think--are there such cases? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aa90a33 | Bir insani sevmek icin diger insanin kendisini gizlemesi gerekir, yuzunu gosterdiginde sevgi kaybolur. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cec7bc1 | It's your rich life," Alyosha said softly. "Why, is it better to be poor?" "Yes, it is." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cb42f6e | for the lawyers, who cared not about the moral aspect of the case, but only, so to speak, about its contemporary legal aspect. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6a0e5fa | Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3d05efb | These sweet little buds are char-ming for a couple of years when they are young, even for three... and then, well, they spread out forever... producing in their husbands that sad in-dif-fer-ence, which so promotes the development of the woman question... if I understand that question correctly... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| eb74c3e | if I do run away, even with money and a passport, and even to America, I still take heart from the thought that I will not be running to any joy or happiness, but truly to another penal servitude, maybe no better than this one! No better, Alexei, I tell you truly, no better! This America, devil take it, I hate it already! So Grusha will be with me, but look at her: is she an American woman? She's Russian, every little bone of her is Russian.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c2d3ccb | It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f8c5842 | I'll always come to see you, all my life," Alyosha answered firmly." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0d7ecaf | For suffering, Rodion Romanovitch, is a great thing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5b3a275 | And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me!" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3a030c7 | though all my friends there are drunk, yet they are all honest, and though we do talk a lot of trash, and I do, too, yet we shall talk our way to the truth at last, for we are on the right path, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 593b27a | The game's not worth the candle | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 98fba89 | Sunt destul de cultivat ca sa nu fiu superstitios, insa sunt superstitios. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4475edc | What they have is science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. The spiritual world, on the other hand, the loftier half of the man's being, is rejected altogether, cast out with a certain triumph, hatred even. The world has proclaimed freedom of theirs: nothing but servitude and suicide! For the world says: 'You have needs, so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the wealthiest and most highly placed of men. Do.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 190447f | What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. | man | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f0bc37b | a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, l.. | desire-to-live | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b890fa6 | When reason fails, the devil helps!" he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dfd9d07 | FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician's seven children. When | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0a289ed | Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires. | grumblers principles | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 1938bc9 | there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e1f5874 | Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it! Or to speak with a man and not be happy in loving him? Oh, it's just that I can't express it - and yet there are so man.. | life love meaning-in-life | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 968030a | In general, despre sentimentele mele fata de o femeie sau alta eu nu ma simt capabil sa-i vorbesc unei a treia persoane, si nimanui, oricine ar fi, afara de acea femeie. Te rog sa ma ierti, dar e o ciudatenie a firii mele. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 992b60c | El verdadero "gentleman" no debe denotar emocion aunque pierda toda su fortuna. Debe hacer poco caso del dinero, como si fuese cosa que no mereciera la pena de fijar atencion en el." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ab25410 | Cuando fracasan, incluso los mejores proyectos parecen estupidos. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b82a5c1 | You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. Bu.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f33c51f | He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and not simply for the sake of instructing them, but as though thirsting to share with all men and all creation his joy and ecstasy, and once more in his life to open up his whole heart. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c0ca357 | If anything is wrong with your nose, they send you to Paris: there, they say, is a European specialist who cures noses. If you go to Paris, he'll look at your nose; I can only cure your right nostril, he'll tell you, for I don't cure the left nostril, that's not my speciality, but go to Vienna, there there's a specialist who will cure your left nostril. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dc2d0cb | I have sometimes thought that if ever I return home, I shall get more grief than joy from my impressions there. I have not lived your life, and much in it is unknown to me, and indeed, no one can really know exactly his fellow-mortal's life; still, human feeling is common to us all, and it seems to me that everyone who has been banished must live all his past grief over again in consciousness and memory, on his return home. It is like a bal.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9ef2d42 | But the greatness of it lies just in the fact that it is a mystery--that the passing earthly show and the eternal verity are brought together in it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |