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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about thinking

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think..."
Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with illness. - Why do evil? - So that everything will be destroyed. Oh, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed! You know, Alyosha, I sometimes think of doing a lot of harm. I would do it for a long while secretly and then suddenly everyone would find out. Everyone will stand around and... Fyodor Dostoevsky
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen... Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . . Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by..."
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? Fyodor Dostoevsky
I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I was told that he had once published it, but the learned world had only laughed at him. I think his wits were a little deranged. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh, I remember, I remember all those moments! And I want to add, too, that when such young creatures, such sweet young creatures want to say something so clever and profound, they show at once so truthfully and naively in their faces, "Here I am saying something clever and profound now"? and that is not from vanity, as it is with any one like me, but one sees that she appreciates it awfully herself, and believes in it, and thinks a lot of it, and imagines that you think a lot of all that,... Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I..."
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I think my liver hurts."
I think my liver hurts. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, and then later the gentleman was attached to them in order to stroke them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I think that if the devil didn't exist and if man has created..."
I think that if the devil didn't exist and if man has created him, then he has created him in his own image and likeness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he..."
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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