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Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821–1881) Translator

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Fyodor Dostoevsky was a translator.

Quick Facts About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Born: November 11, 1821
Died: January 28, 1881
Profession: Translator

About Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Wikidata] Russian novelist (1821–1881)... | [Wikipedia] Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works exp

Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even…

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Believe

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... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

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Firsts

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“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed…

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Books

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“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.”

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White-nights

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Everything seems stupid when it fails.

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Failing

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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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And love

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

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Justification

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Be the sun and all will see you.

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Inspirational

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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…

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All things

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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…

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Crime

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

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Crime

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

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Atheist

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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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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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Forty

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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…

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Crime

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I want to suffer so that I may love.

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Love

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what…

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Courage

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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close…

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Abstract

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Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

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Fear

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Beauty would save the world.

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Beauty

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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at…

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Every man

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I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head;…

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Candle

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“Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren…

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Albanian

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“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable…

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Brothers karamazov

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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing…

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Blessing

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Fyodor Dostoevsky by topic

Men (108) Life (97) Love (66) Inspirational (46) Time (44) Ifs (39) World (31) People (27) Nature (26) Truth (25) Suffering (25) God (25) Happiness (22) Beauty (22) Heart (21)