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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Thinking, Light
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep Thought, Earth, Shelter
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.692, e-artnow

If not reason, then the devil.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Devil, Reason, Ifs
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.72, Vintage

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Real, Night
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith, Jesus, Children
"Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane". Book by Harold Victor Martin, 1950.

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Men, Woe
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.548, Bantam Classics

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Evil, Normal
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Useless, Reason, Explaining
"White Nights and Other Stories".

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pride, Greatness, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.427, Bantam Classics

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Artist, Reality, Shining

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Fall, Eye

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Memories, Moving, Blessed

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Civilization, Degrees, Way

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confused, Taste, Inappropriate
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mean, Being In Love
Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.51, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Understanding, Mind
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.37, Google Publishing

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Hands, Anxiety

One can fall in love and still hate.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Falling In Love, Hate, Fall

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
God Is Dead, Ifs

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reality, People, Tragedy
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Firsts, Chance, Stranger
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.10, Google Publishing

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self, People, Feelings

I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Laughing, Encounters

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