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Moment Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and…
- Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and…
- There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
- 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…
- My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
- With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or…
- But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this…
- It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
- Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work…
- Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
- Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for…
- Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter…
- It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at…
- I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest…
- I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when…
- All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was…
- May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a…
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