"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up."
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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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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and…
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Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version…
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into…
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter…
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Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No…
— Norman Maclean
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Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the…
— Murray Rothbard
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down…
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