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Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Quotes (364)

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It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over they will always be talking of something else.
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Right attitudes produces right action
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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
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Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
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Reason is the slave of passion.
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
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Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
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...chance may do anything.
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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
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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 . . .
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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.
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My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
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