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We are citizens of eternity.

We are citizens of eternity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Citizens, Eternity

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Homeopathy, Strongest, Dose

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Long, Anxiety

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hard Work, Years, Purpose

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laughing, Good Person, Theologian

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Needs, Way

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Comfort, Looks, Alive

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mean, Men, Race
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return, Tickets, Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.373, First Avenue Editions

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Humanity, Suffering

Life [had] replaced logic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Logic, Replaced

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
School, Angel, Race
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.314, First Avenue Editions

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Lying, Delightful
"Crime and Punishment".

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupid, Men, Gentleman

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Light, Ideas, Facts
"Complete Collected Works, Vol. 9". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1895.

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spring, Believe, Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
America, Laughing, Noses

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talking, Privilege, Nonsense
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hate, Men, Self
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gratitude, Feelings, Social
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Suffering, Earth
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, III, 1877.

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

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

I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspiration, Character, Giving

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gratitude, Praise, Insisting

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