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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about heart

Russian Novelist, Writer November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881

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Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that ha perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to judge...If you can take upon yourself the crime of the criminal your heart is judging, take it at once, suffer for him yourself, and let him go without reproach. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning! Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. Fyodor Dostoevsky
it was not a matter of miracles. It was not an expectation of miracles, frivolous in its impatience. Alyosha did not need miracles then for the triumph of certain convictions (it was not that at all), nor so that some sort of former, preconceived idea would quickly triumph over another...Again, it was not miracles he needed, but only a "higher justice," which, as he believed, had been violated--it was this that wounded his heart so cruelly and suddenly...it was justice, justice he thirsted... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "You magnify your failure to a crime, Vasya.-from "A Faint Heart"
You magnify your failure to a crime, Vasya.-from "A Faint Heart Fyodor Dostoevsky
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a..."
Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart."
All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a..."
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they’d be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all! Fyodor Dostoevsky
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a..."
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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