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Almost Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of…
- Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I…
- In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
- Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith…
- He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A…
- It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing…
- Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the…
- I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
- Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
- But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
- Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the…
- A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain…
- Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has…
- It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is…
- Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at…
- She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere…
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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster