Spirituality Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

12 Spirituality quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“The soul is cured through children.”

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“one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living,…

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“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for…

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“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not…

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“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am some sort of ghost of life who has lost all ends and beginnings, and I've finally even forgotten what to call myself...You're eternally angry, you want reason only, but I will repeat to you once more that I…

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“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy,…

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“Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain…

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“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in…

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“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of…

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“And yet everyone goes toward one and the same thing, at least everyone strives for one and the same thing, from the…

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“I will tell you that I am a child of this century, a child of disbelief and doubt. I am that today…

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“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable ecstasy flooded my soul. Yes, life and spreading the good tidings! Oh, I at that moment resolved to spread the tidings, and resolved it, of course, for my whole life. I go to spread the tidings, I want…

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“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground…

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“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree…

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“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 repeating to himself, again and again. 'It's like a dream, I've sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.' It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so…

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“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort”

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“The morning was so damp and misty”

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“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have…

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“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

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“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…

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“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels . . . are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were…

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“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on a steel ring… . And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers … then there must be some…

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“- 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 that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with illness. - Why do evil? - So that everything will be destroyed. Oh, how nice it would…

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“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture. Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. The dying man threw…

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