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Tell Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must…
- There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away…
- Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal…
- The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness…
- Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest…
- I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of…
- But how could you live and have no story to tell?
- I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in…
- I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen,…
- --you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
- One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not…
- I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift…
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