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Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Quotes (364)

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
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And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
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The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.
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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.
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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
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They were like two enemies in love with one another.
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.
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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
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There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
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The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .
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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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