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Hell is the inability to love.

Hell is the inability to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inability To Love, Inability, Hell
"It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous" by Simon Critchley, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Philosophy, Effort, Way

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Thinking, Definitions

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Humanity, Deep Thought
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Broken, Suffering, Break
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sunshine, Men, Rays
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book, Sight, People
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.11, Vintage

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Waiting, Gumption, Courses

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
What Matters, Discovery, Life Is

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Law, Two, Advice

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Believe, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, Bantam Classics

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adventure, Dark, Back Alleys
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Possessing

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye, Men, Thinking

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Past, Thinking

We are all happy if we but knew it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happy Love, Ifs

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Love Is, People
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.52, Macmillan

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tails, Speak
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.289, Clap Publishing, LLC.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fashion, Hipster, Conceited

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Approval, Merit
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.263, 谷月社

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Joy, World, Mass
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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