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Precisely Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have…
- This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it…
- 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…
- I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
- Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they…
- Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my…
- 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…
- It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the…
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- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin
- Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. — Warren G. Bennis
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
- I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. — Tony Abbott
- I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. — Eldridge Cleaver