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Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Quotes (364)

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The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
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Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
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. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .
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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
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To cook your hare you must first catch it.
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Love life more than the meaning of it?
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My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.
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Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!
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Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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