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Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Quotes (364)

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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will
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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
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In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
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But people will laugh at all sorts of things.
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Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.
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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense. Or else a fool.
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