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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "this is what I've wasted my life on"
this is what I've wasted my life on Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped."
Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my..."
I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "In place of dialectics, life had arrived."
In place of dialectics, life had arrived. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish."
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to..."
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment, I can be most of of use. I know it's not for you to decide that, but I'm only asking for your opinion. You tell me, and what you say I swear I'll do! Well, what is the great thought?" "Well, to turn stones into bread. That's a great thought." "The greatest? Yes, really, you have suggested quite a new path. Tell me, is it the greatest?" "It's very great, my dear boy, very great, but it's not the greatest. It's... Fyodor Dostoevsky
You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse! Fyodor Dostoevsky
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel. Fyodor Dostoevsky
He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come into fashion, Fyodor Dostoevsky
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up"
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up Fyodor Dostoevsky

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