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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, His Love, Bears
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.187, Macmillan

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unique, Men, Privilege
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.193, Oxford University Press

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Secret, Germany

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Faithful, Deceit

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Suffering, New Life
"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness, Men, Unhappy
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.212, 谷月社

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear, Atheism, Taste

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Desire, Enough
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.544, Random House

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligent, Men, Doe
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.6, Vintage

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Light, Environmental

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Crime Books, Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Compass, Harmony

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Live Life, Mean, Years

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real, Men, Thinking

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gambling, Foolish, Pursuit
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.18, Modern Library

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Earth, Made
"The Brothers Karamazov".

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Falling In Love, Hate, Mean
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.104, Macmillan

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Theory
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.484, 谷月社

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupid, Intelligent, Men

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Men, Said
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness, Miracle, Forever

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fog, Cities, What If

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Feelings, Unhappy, Unhappiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bees, Doe, Way

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Example, Use, Christ
Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.180, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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