"It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"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 a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky has 585 quotes on this site.
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
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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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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass…
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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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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory,…
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More Chaste Quotes
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As chaste as unsunned snow.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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