"It suddenly seemed to me that I was……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"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 entitled to ask who “every one” was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was..."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work…
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
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