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Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unbelievable, Interest, Esteem

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Long, Consciousness

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moon, Weaving, Mystery
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.274, Google Publishing

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Years, One Day
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.289, Macmillan

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spring, Grief, Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.106, Clap Publishing, LLC.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Despair, Hopelessness, Pleasure

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Judging, Oneself
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistake, Punishment, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Secret, Goes On
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Discovery, Knowing, World
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.

I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Life, Thinking, World Love

Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Moments, Everlasting

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

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

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Mad, Humanity

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crush, Work, Character

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lonely, Eight, Years
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Men, Sensitive Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.125, Vintage

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heaven, Secret, Atheism
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.17, A&C Black

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Simple, People, Wicked
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.9, Macmillan

I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Philosophy, Bores You, People

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Laziness, Firsts

Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Pride, Sarcasm

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye, Heart, Sick
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Two, Doe

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupid, Reality, Honest

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