Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - th...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extrem...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" M...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all t...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; h...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man does not live by bread alone.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of dou...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every rig...
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