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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vipers, Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.141, Macmillan

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hate, Men, High Standards

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nice, Intelligent, Ideas

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Brain, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Law, Likes, Common
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Deep Thought, He Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Ideas, World
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reality, Wish, Use
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.303, Macmillan

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Giving, Bird
"The Idiot".

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sleep, Men, Blessing

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Squares, Roots

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imagine, Eternity, Conception
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.389, Modern Library

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mind, Want, Facts

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Angel, Wings, People

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Stupid, Men

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Attitude, Views, Earth

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Used, Mets, Walking
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.9, Google Publishing

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Civilization, Body

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rebel, World, Accepting

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking, Blood, Rivers

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Law, Two, Care

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tongue, There Is No God, Ifs
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.562, 谷月社

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wish, Paradise, Life Is

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Deceit, Way
"Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Character, Men, Belief
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.1109, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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