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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Circumstances, Like Me

‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Soul, Vices

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kissing, Land, And Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.911, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spring, Blue, Sky
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forgiveness, Fall, People
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.489, First Avenue Editions

Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Self, People

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tea, Ironic, Selfishness
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Order, World

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Giving Up, Men, Roots

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pity, Poor, Signs Of Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.288, First Avenue Editions

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hero, Adversity, Light
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hands, Giving, Independence

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Notes From The Underground, Every Man
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Years, Suffering

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Keys, Sky, Drawing

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doubt, Mind, Answers
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.189, Clap Publishing, LLC.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Book, Chinese

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Order, Perfection, Ignorant
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Men, Answers
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.71, Youcanprint

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gogol, Overcoat, Russian Literature

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Differences, Healthy, Shade

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forever, Soul, Mind

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
God, Atheism, There Is No God

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mother, Fear, Children
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.1064, First Avenue Editions

God is the pain of the fear of death

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain, Fear Of Death
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.98, 谷月社

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