--- title: "12 Long time Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky" description: "12 Long time quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Plus more from Fyodor Dostoyevsky and more Long time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_adults_i-don-t-like-being-with-grown-up-people_985601.jpg" --- > [“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-don-t-like-being-with-grown-up-people-i-ve-known-that-a-long-time-i/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_adults_i-don-t-like-being-with-grown-up-people_985601.jpg) > [“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/pine-trees-are-not-like-human-beings-they-go-for-a-long-time-without/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_pine-trees-are-not-like-human-beings-the_1942742.jpg) > [“Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/listen-then-we-are-not-with-you-but-with-him-that-is-our-secret-for-a/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a5/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_listen-then-we-are-not-with-you-but-with_471246.jpg) > [“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/but-before-going-to-bed-he-fell-on-his-knees-and-prayed-a-long-time/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_darkness_but-before-going-to-bed-he-fell-on-his-k_1848677.jpg) > [“I think every one should love life above everything in the world.” “Love life more than the meaning of it?” “Certainly, love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-think-every-one-should-love-life-above-everything-in-the-world-love/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/874/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_life_i-think-every-one-should-love-life-above_1410515.jpg) > [“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/once-he-went-into-the-mountains-on-a-clear-sunny-day-and-wandered/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_alienation_once-he-went-into-the-mountains-on-a-cle_2180591.jpg) > [“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor," the elder remarked. "He was then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-time-ago-to-be-sure-from-a/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_hate-people_i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-ti_2406932.jpg) > [“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth-but-where-is-there-any-mirth/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_character_sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth_781540.jpg) > [“Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know-how-to-behave-with-dignity/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know_3108109.jpg) > [“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of-the-universe-yet-i-love-the/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_aloysha_though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of_1808551.jpg) > [“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-first-place-the-prince-resumed/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_christian-religion_it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-fir_2479493.jpg) > [“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impossible-and-unnatural-you-wake/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_dreams_sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impos_2608283.jpg) ## Other authors on Long time ## More by Fyodor Dostoyevsky > [“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/beauty-is-not-only-a-terrible-thing-it-is-also-a-mysterious-thing/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/listen-i-know-it-s-not-right-to-talk-better-to-set-an-example-better/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/when-all-are-undressed-one-is-somehow-not-ashamed-but-when-one-s-the/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/and-what-if-there-are-only-spiders-there-or-something-of-that-sort/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“The morning was so damp and misty”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-morning-was-so-damp-and-misty/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-repeat-i-repeat-with-emphasis-all-direct-persons-and-men-of-action/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/he-is-a-man-of-intelligence-but-to-act-sensibly-intelligence-is-not/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [ “if \[God\] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/if-god-doesn-t-exist-man-is-the-chief-of-the-earth-of-the-universe/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/from-an-encounter-in-1862-dickens-told-me-dostoyevsky-recalled-in-a/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/it-must-be-the-top-drawer-he-reflected-so-she-carries-the-keys-in-a/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/you-take-evil-for-good-it-s-a-passing-crisis-it-s-the-result-of-your/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/clouds-overlaid-the-sky-as-with-a-shroud-of-mist-and-everything/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/people-who-can-speak-well-speak-briefly/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-think-i-could-stand-anything-any-suffering-only-to-be-able-to-say/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) > [“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/there-is-no-more-ceaseless-or-tormenting-care-for-man-as-long-as-he/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/fyodor-dostoyevsky/#itemlist", "name": "12 Long time Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. 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He spoke just as frankly as you, humorously, but with a sorrowful humor. 'I love mankind,' he said, 'but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. In my dreams,' he said, 'I often went so far as to think passionately of serving mankind, and, it may be, would really have gone to the cross for people if it were somehow suddenly necessary, and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone even for two days, this I know from experience. As soon as someone is there, close to me, his personality oppresses my self-esteem and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I can begin to hate even the best of men: one because he takes too long eating his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps blowing his nose. I become the enemy of people the moment they touch me,' he said. 'On the other hand, it has always happened that the more I hate people individually, the more ardent becomes my love for humanity as a whole.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-time-ago-to-be-sure-from-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_hate-people_i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-ti_2406932.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_hate-people_i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-ti_2406932.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_hate-people_i-heard-exactly-the-same-thing-a-long-ti_2406932.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor,\" the elder remarked. \"He was then…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A man's mirth is a feature that gives away the whole man, from head to foot. Someone's character won't be cracked for a long time then the man bursts out laughing somehow quite sincerely, and his whole character suddenly opens up as if on the flat of your hand. Only a man of the loftiest and happiest development knows how to be mirthful infectiously, that is, irresistibly and goodheartedly. I'm not speaking of his mental development, but of his character, of the whole man. And so, if you want to discern a man and know his soul, you must look, not at how he keeps silent, or how he speaks, or how we weeps, or even how he is stirred by the noblest ideas, but you had better look at him when he laughs. If a man has a good laugh, it means he's a good man.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth-but-where-is-there-any-mirth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_character_sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth_781540.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_character_sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth_781540.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/106/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_character_sincere-and-unspiteful-laughter-is-mirth_781540.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man, but I don't know how to behave with dignity. Do you understand that it may be so? All Russians are that way, and you know why? Because Russians are too richly and multifariously endowed to be able to find a decent form for themselves very quickly. It's a matter of form. For the most part, we Russians are so richly endowed that it takes genius for us to find a decent form. Well, but most often there is no genius, because generally it rarely occurs. It's only the French, and perhaps some few other Europeans, who have so well-defined a form that one can look extremely dignified and yet be a most undignified man. That's why form means so much to them. A Frenchman can suffer an insult, a real, heartfelt insult, and not wince, but a flick on the nose he won't suffer for anything, because it's a violation of the accepted and time-honored form of decency. That's why our young ladies fall so much for Frenchmen, because they have good form. In my opinion, however, there's no form there, but only a rooster, le coq gaulois . However, that I cannot understand, I'm not a woman. Maybe roosters are fine. And generally I'm driveling, and you don't stop me. Stop me more often; when I talk with you, I want to say everything, everything, everything. I lose all form. I even agree that I have not only no form, but also no merits. I announce that to you. I don't even care about any merits. Everything in me has come to a stop now. You yourself know why. I don't have a single human thought in my head. For a long time I haven't known what's going on in the world, either in Russia or here. I went through Dresden and don't remember what Dresden is like. You know yourself what has swallowed me up. Since I have no hope and am a zero in your eyes, I say outright: I see only you everywhere, and the rest makes no difference to me. Why and how I love you--I don't know. Do you know, maybe you're not good at all? Imagine, I don't even know whether you're good or not, or even good-looking? Your heart probably isn't good; your mind isn't noble; that may very well be.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know-how-to-behave-with-dignity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know_3108109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know_3108109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d1/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_long-time_just-try-to-suppose-that-i-may-not-know_3108109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one's heart prizes them... I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha; I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard. And I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in emotion. I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky--that's all it is. It's not a matter of intellect or logic, it's loving with one's inside, with one's stomach. One loves the first strength of one's youth. Do you understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?\" Ivan laughed suddenly. \"I understand too well, Ivan. One longs to love with one's inside, with one's stomach. You said that so well and I am awfully glad that you have such a longing for life,\" cried Alyosha. \"I think everyone should love life above everything in the world.\" \"Love life more than the meaning of it?\" \"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it. I have thought so a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan, you love life, now you've only to try to do the second half and you are saved.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of-the-universe-yet-i-love-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_aloysha_though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of_1808551.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_aloysha_though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of_1808551.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_aloysha_though-i-may-not-believe-in-the-order-of_1808551.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the first place, and secondly, Roman Catholicism is even worse than atheism - that's my opinion. Yes, that's my opinion! Atheism merely preaches a negation, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ, a Christ calumniated and defamed by it, the opposite of Christ! It preaches Antichrist - I swear it does, I assure you it does! This is my personal opinion, an opinion I've held for a long time, and it has worried me a lot myself. ... Roman Catholicism believes that the Church cannot exist on earth without universal temporal power, and cries: Non possumus! In my opinion, Roman Catholicism isn't even a religion, but most decidedly a continuation of the Holy Roman Empire, and everything in it is subordinated to that idea, beginning with faith. The Pope seized the earth, an earthly throne and took up the sword; and since then everything has gone on in the same way, except that they've added lies, fraud, deceit, fanaticism, superstition wickedness. They have trifled with the most sacred, truthful, innocent, ardent feelings of the people, have bartered it all for money, for base temporal power. And isn't this the teaching of Antichrist? Isn't it clear that atheism had to come from them? And it did come from them, from Roman Catholicism itself! Atheism originated first of all with them: how could they believe in themselves? It gained ground because of abhorrence of them; it is the child of their lies and their spiritual impotence! Atheism! In our country it is only the upper classes who do not believe, as Mr Radomsky so splendidly put it the other day, for they have lost their roots. But in Europe vast numbers of the common people are beginning to lose their faith - at first from darkness and lies, and now from fanaticism, hatred of the Church and Christianity!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-first-place-the-prince-resumed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_christian-religion_it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-fir_2479493.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_christian-religion_it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-fir_2479493.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_christian-religion_it-is-an-unchristian-religion-in-the-fir_2479493.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated you in a friendly way, though they already had their weapons ready and were only waiting for some sort of sign; you remember how cleverly you finally deceived them, hid from them; then you realize that they know your whole deception by heart and merely do not show you that they know where you are hiding; but you are clever and deceive them again—all that you remember clearly. But why at the same time could your reason be reconciled with such obvious absurdities and impossibilities, with which, among other things, your dream was filled? Before your eyes, one of your murderers turned into a woman, and from a woman into a clever, nasty little dwarf—and all that you allowed at once, as an accomplished fact, almost without the least perplexity, and precisely at the moment when, on the other hand, your reason was strained to the utmost, displaying extraordinary force, cleverness, keenness, logic? Why, also, on awakening from your dream and entering fully into reality, do you feel almost every time, and occasionally with an extraordinary force of impressions, that along with the dream you are leaving behind something you have failed to fathom? You smile at the absurdity of your dream and feel at the same time that the tissue of those absurdities contains some thought, but a thought that is real, something that belongs to your true life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart; it is as if your dream has told you something new, prophetic, awaited; your impression is strong, it is joyful or tormenting, but what it is and what has been told you—all that you can neither comprehend nor recall.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impossible-and-unnatural-you-wake/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_dreams_sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impos_2608283.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_dreams_sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impos_2608283.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_dreams_sometimes-you-dream-strange-dreams-impos_2608283.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are…” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/fyodor-dostoyevsky/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/fyodor-dostoyevsky/", "name": "Long time Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/fyodor-dostoyevsky/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_adults_i-don-t-like-being-with-grown-up-people_985601.jpg" }, "description": "12 Long time quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 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