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Mystery Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12 Mystery quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Dostoevsky’s fascination with the inscrutable shines through these twelve snippets. Though brief, they capture his intense moral questioning and the eerie undercurrents that run through his work, making a solid starter point for anyone drawn to his dark introspection.

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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive…

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“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have…

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've…

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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the…

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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they…

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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals,…

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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man…

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But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender…

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Everything seems stupid when it fails.

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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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Be the sun and all will see you.

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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by…

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“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by…

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“You magnify your failure to a crime, Vasya.”

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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

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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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“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

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“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

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