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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

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

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought..."
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love...Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach. Fyodor Dostoevsky
And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love..."
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
To love someone means to see them as God intended them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are moments when people love crime," Alyosha said pensively."Yes, yes! You've spoken my own thought, they love it, they all love it, and love it always, not just at 'moments.' You know, it's as if at some point they all agreed to lie about it, and have been lying about it ever since. They all say they hate what's bad, but secretly they all love it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
But now, all of a sudden, there appeared before me the absurd, loathsomely spiderish notion of debauchery, which, without love, crudely and shamelessly begins straight off with that which is the crown of true love. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love."
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all..."
Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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