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What matters, said the prince at last, is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, What Matters, Lasts

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real, Illness, Conscious
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.7, e-artnow

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Laughing

Beauty would save the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deep Thought, World, Save The World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

Without God all things are permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
All Things, Without God
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, www.theguardian.com. November 1880.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Done, Said, Contempt

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Real, Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.145, Clap Publishing, LLC.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Intellectual, Stronger

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taken, Omission, Devil

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
What Matters, Matter, Trifles
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.16, e-artnow

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Humans, Human Society

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two, Gentleman, Four

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Reality, Brain
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gentleman, Answers
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.31, e-artnow

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Father, Desire
The Brothers Karamazov bk. 12, ch. 5 (1879 - 1880) (translation by Constance Garnett)

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Gentleman, Wicked

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking, Deeds, Tiny
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.61, Google Publishing

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Sick, Spiteful

Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lonely, Children, Men

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking, Ideas, House

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hymns, Shame, Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.107, Macmillan

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, World, Easier

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ocean, Live Life, Thinking
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

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fall, Men, Looks

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Philosophy, Men
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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