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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Destiny, Men, Order
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Men, Thinking

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Father, Enemy

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fate, Gone Away, Numbers

I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mean, Past, Men

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Fall, Tears
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.55, Youcanprint

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Men, Thinking

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking, Talking, Two
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.315, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Thinking, People
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Gentleman, Gone
"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fire, Hands, Cold
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain, Years, Essence

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two, Needs, Four

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystery, Mystery Of God, Perceive
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Libertarian, Slave
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.8, A&C Black

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Boredom, Being Thankful

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Success, Frustration, Firsts

My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lonely, Strong, Children

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistake, Making Mistakes, Doe

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Squares, Years, Space
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.588, Modern Library

But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cutting, Ideas, Glee

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ideas, Brain, Genius

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, July, Bridges
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, Believe, Atheism
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Firsts, Bundles, Position
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.55, Youcanprint

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