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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness"
Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not a cultivated man, brother, but I've thought a lot about this. It's terrible what mysteries there are! Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve them as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Fyodor Dostoevsky
He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
We've already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge - like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones,..."
The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? Fyodor Dostoevsky
in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night. Fyodor Dostoevsky
but the most sumptuous thing in the room at that moment was naturally the sumptuously laid table, though, of course, even that was comparatively speaking: the table-cloth was clean, the silver was brightly polished; three kinds of wonderfully baked bread, two bottles of wine, two bottles of excellent monastery mead, and a large glass jug of monastery kvas, famous throughout the neighbourhood. There was no vodka at all. Rakitin related afterwards that this time it was a five-course dinner:... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be..."
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his..."
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "If they knew that they are happy, they would be happy."
If they knew that they are happy, they would be happy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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