"It's in despair that you find the sharpest……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position."
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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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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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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
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