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Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspirational Quotes (364)

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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!
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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
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You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
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They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!
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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
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Beauty will save the world
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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
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If not reason, then the devil.
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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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... you simply can't imagine what men will say!
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