Fyodor Dostoyevsky Short Quotes

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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.

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They have their Hamlets, but we still have our Karamazovs!

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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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Petersburg, the most abstract and premeditated city on earth.

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?

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What you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

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But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

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If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself...

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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

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Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.

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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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