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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite..."
Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You know, Mitya, I shall go to a nunnery. No, really, some day I shall go to one. Alyosha said some words to me today that I shall remember all my life..." (Book VIII: Mitya. Delirium) Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be surprised at everything is stupid of course, and to be astonished at nothing is a great deal more becoming and for some reason accepted as good form. But that is not really true. To my mind to be astonished at nothing is much more stupid than to be astonished at everything. And, moreover, to be astonished at nothing is almost the same as feeling respect for nothing. And indeed a stupid man is incapable of feeling respect. Fyodor Dostoevsky
we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in ourselves that it's better from a book Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at..."
I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were so on principle. Some (though by no means all) turned up drunk, but they seemed to regard it as some new manifestation of grace they had discovered only the day before. They all appeared to be quite extraordinarily proud of something. On all faces was written that they had only just discovered some highly important secret. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum of three thousand roubles today, or any other money, never, never! I swear to it by all that is holy in our world." Khokhlakov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so..."
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before... "I am base" he whispered to himself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man...they should, surely they should! It is man's own duty to arrange it so; it is his law--a hidden but surely existing one... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could..."
Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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