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| 8b249ce | And a respectable man must be a coward and a slave not only at the present time, owing to some accidental circumstances, but generally in all periods of time. That's a law of nature for all respectable people on earth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 89d6aea | In every man's memory there are things he won't reveal to others, except, perhaps, to his friends. And there are things he won't reveal even to friends, only, perhaps, to himself, and there, too, in secret. And finally, there are things he is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of them. In fact, the more decent the man, the more of them he has stored up. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6f43875 | And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but com.. | good-and-evil judgement sermon the-beast understanding | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e372245 | I dream of seeing, and seem to see clearly already, our future. It will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich will end by being ashamed of his riches before the poor, and the poor, seeing his humility, will understand and give way before him, will respond joyfully and kindly to his honourable shame. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d2f7b86 | In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point. The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a6b3a4c | And once they have children, the most difficult times will seem to them happy, so long as there is love and courage. Even toil will be a joy, you may deny yourself bread for your children and even that will be a joy. They will love you for it afterward; so you are laying by for your future. As the children grow up you feel that you are an example, a support for them; that even after you die your children will always keep your thoughts and f.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f9edc10 | Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4b6e8fb | 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, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c71c516 | Work without ceasing. If you remember in the night as you go to sleep, "I have not done what I ought to have done," rise up at once and do it. If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you. And if you cannot speak to them in their bitterness, serve them in silence and in humility, never losing hope. If .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6aa6ba2 | I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a7425f2 | In the land of Uz, there lived a man, righteous and God-fearing, and he had great wealth, so many camels, so many sheep and asses, and his children feasted, and he loved them very much and prayed for them. 'It may be that my sons have sinned in their feasting.' Now the devil came before the Lord together with the sons of God, and said to the Lord that he had gone up and down the earth and under the earth. 'And hast thou considered my servan.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b2f59c8 | Oh! what does grief matter--what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8c623d0 | If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort of spring fever. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| bfc2b61 | There's something here, my dear boy, that you don't understand yet. A man will fall in love with some beauty, with a woman's body, or even a part of a woman's body (a sensualist can understand that) and he'll abandon his own children for her, sell his father and mother, and his country, Russia, too. If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive. | timeless-truth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f307f96 | When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2105b0c | All mankind in our age have split up into units, they all keep apart, each in his own groove; each one holds aloof, hides himself and hides what he has, from the rest, and he ends by being repelled by others and repelling them. He heaps up riches by himself and thinks, 'How strong I am now and how secure,' and in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence. For he is accust.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cde57e9 | So it is sometimes with the most good-natured people of weak nerves, who in spite of their kindliness are carried away till they find enjoyment in their own grief and anger, and try to express themselves at any cost, even that of wounding some other innocent creature, always by preference the one nearest and dearest. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 59d98d9 | From the house of my childhood I have brought nothing but precious memories, for there are no memories more precious than those of early childhood in one's first home. And that is almost always so if there is any love and harmony in the family at all. Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 318446d | If one wants to know any man well, one must consider him gradually and carefully, so as not to fall into error and prejudice, which are very difficult to correct and smooth out later. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c10afab | We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| db1abc1 | But maybe there isn't any God. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 672a236 | Money equalizes all inequalities. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7f29e43 | I am X in an indeterminate equation. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6b2223f | If it can't be decided in the affirmative, it will never be decided in the negative. You know that that is the peculiarity of your heart, and all its suffering is due to it. But thank the Creator who has given you a lofty heart capable of such suffering; of thinking and seeking higher things, for our dwelling is in the heavens. God grant that your heart will attain the answer on earth, and may God bless your path. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 54bd0c3 | The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 66e4124 | Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering. | lise | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8548840 | There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over the body and spirit of a human creature like himself, a creature created in the same image and subject to the same law of Christ; any man who has tasted this power, this boundless opportunity to humiliate most bitterly another being made in the image of God -- becomes the servant instead of the master of his own emotions... | punishment tyranny | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| d8b9c1b | There are three Powers, three unique Forces upon earth, capable of conquering for ever by charming the conscience of these weak rebels--men--for their own good; and these Forces are: Miracle, Mystery and Authority. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 65b3d3a | So much have we lost touch with 'real life' that we occasionally feel a kind of disgust for it and so can't bear to be reminded of it. For we have arrived at the point where we look on 'real life' as toil, almost as compulsory service, and all of us privately agree that 'life' as we find it in book is better. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9841f36 | Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity of their activities, games, and conversations. They were so lacking in understanding of the most essential things, so devoid of interest in the most important, most remarkable matters, that I involuntarily began to look upon them as my inferiors. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7d4d4bd | The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6511261 | Not long ago I was much amused by imagining--what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the world--what a predicament my judges would be in, with my having only a fortnight to live, now that corporal punishment and torture is abolished. I should die comfortably in hospital, warm aad snug, with an attentive doctor, and very likely much m.. | capital-punishment consumption cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-sentence hippolyte tuberculosis | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5697881 | I was also afraid to the point of illness of being ridiculous, and therefore slavishly worshipped routine in everything to do with externals; I loved falling into the common rut, and feared any eccentricity in myself with all my soul. But how could I hold out? I was morbidly developed, as a man of our time ought to be developed. And they were all dull-witted and as like one another as a flock of sheep. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b543df9 | You thirst for life, yet you yourself resolve life's questions with a logical tangle. And how importunate, how impudent your escapades, yet at the same time how frightened you are! You talk nonsense, and are pleased with it; you say impudent things, yet you keep being afraid and asking forgiveness for them. You insist that you are not afraid of anything, and at the same time you court our opinion. You insist that you are gnashing your teeth.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 72dc803 | From an encounter in 1862... "Dickens told me," Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, "that all the good, simple people in his novels . . . are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love. . . . There were two peopl.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3084b14 | He came softly, unobserved, and yet, strange to say, every one recognized Him. That might be one of the best passages in the poem. I mean, why they recognized Him. The people are irresistibly drawn to Him, they surround Him, they flock about Him, follow Him. He moves silently in their midst with a gentle smile of infinite compassion. The sun of love burns in His heart, light and power shine from His eyes, and their radiance, shed on the peo.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3d4c950 | In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well. | perfection understanding-others | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5e09f6a | Ht~ l'Hlm yjb `lyh 'n tqwm llbq `l~ qyd lHy@. | الحياة | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 41054e9 | I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man. | lying truth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| b00c0f2 | He never did anything to me it's true, but I once played a most shameless nasty trick on him, and the moment I did it, I immediately hated him for it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8174940 | l'mr lmhm hw lHy@, lHy@ wHdh... lmhm hw lbHth lmtSl `n lHy@, hw ls`y l'bdy l~ lHy@, wlys ktshf lHy@! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a1c6f07 | Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all of God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to l.. | Richard Rohr | ||
| 706a010 | In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rati.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6f7d6dd | nny fy rwH tlk lmr'@ lty tnhD mn nwmh ltbky | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |