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Very Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo…
- At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
- In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind…
- I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the…
- Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
- After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning…
- I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also…
- Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
- To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
- 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…
- And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
- 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…
- Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
- 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…
- Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me…
- The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't…
- Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by…
- Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And…
- Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very…
- Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He…
- 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…
- I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for…
- We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately…
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