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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian
Novelist
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Love
#Death
#Men
#Worship
#Martyrs
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Nothing
#Man
#First
#Fact
#Habits
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#World
#Belief
#Living
#Force
#Mankind
#Immortality
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#God
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Achievement
#Lie
#Happiness
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Work
#Reason
#Men
#Women
#Existence
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Money
#Worth
#Emotion
#Gentleman
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
#Anxiety
#Worship
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#People
#First
#Word
#Interest
#Strangers
#Sight
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Love
#God
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#God
#Heart
#Man
#Fighting
#Beauty
#Devil
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
#Happiness
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
#Opinion
#Fool
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#People
#Soul
#Privacy
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Study
#Fear
#Results
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Power
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Happiness
#Unhappiness
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Children
#Being
#Soul
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
#Mind
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Old
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Formula
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#Hope
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#May
#Man
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Russian
Novelist
#World
#Unhappiness