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What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Joy, Humanity, Desire
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Longing, Reason, Hysterical

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Food, Feet, Libertarian
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Done, Hurt Me
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.423, Clap Publishing, LLC.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Air, Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.635, Modern Library

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Keys, Piano

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

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

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Ideas, Savages
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Karma, Children, Father
Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.547, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

The Russian soul is a dark place.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dark, Soul, Dark Places

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stars, Lying, Night
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.266, Modern Library

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Numbers, Secret
"Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 11 (page 35), 1864.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Distance, Noble, Neighbor
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.237, Macmillan

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money, Men, Liberty

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mysterious, Ache

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Portraits, World, Said
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.80, Vintage

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Intelligent, Noble

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Live Life, Punishment, May
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Punishment, Humanity, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Numbers, Bird

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heaven, Life Is, Embrace
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.348, e-artnow

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Engineering, May, Strive

He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hatred, Feelings, Gestures

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christian, Jesus, Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Careers, History, Genius
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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