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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Men, Thinking

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Two, Four

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Success, Player, Men
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hungry, Mockery, Satisfied
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.99, Youcanprint

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spring, Believe, Miracle
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brother, Lying, People

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity, Men, Suffering

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Care, Sometimes, Notes From The Underground
"Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32), 1864.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brother, Brotherhood, Facts
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.872, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Beauty will save the world

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty, Christian, World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fall, Eye, Thinking

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fall, Stronger, Demand

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, May, Want
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Morning, Stars, Autumn
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, People, Littles
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.591, Macmillan

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mother, Heart, Widows
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.130, Vintage

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Night, Wonderful, Young
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Virtue, Immortality, Ifs
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
God Knows, Knows
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.455, Vintage

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wall, Accepting, Consequence

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Liars, Lying, Wrath

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Fall, Down And

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Deception, Despair

I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love You, Insanity, Secret
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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