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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom..."
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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. 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
You are going to perform a virtuous deed, but you don't even believe in virtue--that's what makes you angry and torments you, that's why you're so vindictive. Fyodor Dostoevsky
An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation" just like some Muslims who conseiders their sheikh as holy, some christians worship their (elder) 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
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult! Fyodor Dostoevsky
And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, for it often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are some ... it's just laziness that makes people classify themselves according to appearances, and fail to find anything in common.... But perhaps I am boring you? You seem ... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but..."
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost. Fyodor Dostoevsky
In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: " the extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted,..."
... the extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The soul is healed by being with children."
The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive,..."
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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