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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Opposites, Able

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
Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Caring, Lasts, November
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Suffering, Sin
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Wells, Idle
"Notes From Underground And The Grand Inquisitor".

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Gone, World
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Sublime, Goodness

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Punishment, Murder, Crime
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Peace, Long, Tea
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.189, Youcanprint

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night, Skeletons, Skins

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taverns, Stones, Way
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.228, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spiritual, Order, Humanity
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Years, Interest
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.111, Modern Library

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nasty, Social, Justification
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.902, First Avenue Editions

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fall, Love You, Farewell

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Europe, Russia, Asia
"Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Memories, Forgotten, Driven

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hate, Ideas, Ambitious

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
World, Accepting, This World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.235, Macmillan

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Illness, Crime

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Summer, Fall, Winter
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nurse, People, Kind

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
My Friends, Ifs

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Execution, Littles, Way

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gambling, Tables, Superstitions
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.140, Oxford Paperbacks

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