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I'm drunk but truthful.

I'm drunk but truthful.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Drunk, Truthful

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Long, Deep Thought
1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Disease, Consciousness, Genuine

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Example, Different
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2152, e-artnow

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Relationship, Dream, Action
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Loss, Resolution, Resolve
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.4, Macmillan

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, Believe, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, Bantam Classics

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spring, Writing, Ideas
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Worship
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.604, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Men, Adaptation

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Education, Memories
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep Thought, Chaos, Break
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Suffering, Ease

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
My Time, My Own, Plenty

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Miracle

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Self, Self Respect
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.107, Modern Library

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Is, Men, Earth

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear, Deep Thought, Study

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real, Gentleman, Sickness
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Way, Facts

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Giving, Hateful, Talent
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.124, Vintage

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Teacher, Love Is, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.319, Macmillan

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laughter, Men, Talking
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Drowning, Wisps

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep Thought, Life Is
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.12, Macmillan

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