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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.


Fyodor Dostoevski

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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and var...
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...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that de...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting the...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then sudde...
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