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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your..."
The flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a matter of fate, like the toothache which cannot be blamed on anyone, and the only thing that's left is, once again, to bang the wall as hard as you can. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!"
Speak of a wolf and you see his tail! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you..."
Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was absurd. But that aside, I am firmly convinced that not only excess of consciousness, but any consciousness at all is a disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a..."
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Man only like to count his troubles, but he does not count his..."
Man only like to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys Fyodor Dostoevsky
And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? Fyodor Dostoevsky
A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count..."
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at..."
We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them! Fyodor Dostoevsky

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