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One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Life, Disappear, Console

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Heart, Angel
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness, Laughter, Lying

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Sorrow, Wells
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Humanity, Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.128, Clap Publishing, LLC.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Responsible, Ifs

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wise, Spiritual, Fall

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heartbreak, Betrayal, Causes

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Animal, Light

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never Forget, Complicated, Motive

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Memories, Home, Years

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Laughing, Good Man

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Thinking, Sorrow
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.254, Oxford University Press

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Respect, Lying, Men
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.582, e-artnow

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying, Deep Thought, Achieve
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.335, Northwestern University Press

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Healing, Thinking, Sick

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Profound, Ridiculous, Left
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.43, Vintage

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty, Heart, Fighting
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Law, Coward

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Might, Turns
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Translated by Constance Garnett, Constance Black Garnett (2006). “The Double: Easyread Large Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Worship, Prophet

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stupidity, Honest, Clarity

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People
1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Heart, Infinite
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Looks, Manage
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.481, Random House

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