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Money is coined liberty.

Money is coined liberty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Liberty
"The House of the Dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 16 in 1915 translation by Constance Garnett), 1862.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Dignity, Worthy
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cutting, Reality, Doe

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suicide, Differences, Waiting
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, People, Giving
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Logic, Reason

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Workout, New Relationship, Deep Thought

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sports, Hockey, Suffering
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Powerful, Rights, Self
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Perception
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.15, e-artnow

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two, Enemy
Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.419, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beautiful, Children, Love You

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jealous, Forgiving, Knows
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.580, First Avenue Editions

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Friendship, True Love, Love You

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, Existentialism, Ifs
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real, Disease, Honest
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.99, Modern Library

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hate, Being In Love, Loving Someone

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Civilization, Deep Thought
"Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23), 1864.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beast, Humans, Human Beings
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Punishment, Ideas, Numbers
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Dream, Persistence

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Nihilism, Quality
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.326, Vintage

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Mind, Consciousness

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Heart, Desire
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, May, Found
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The House of the Dead”, p.72, Xist Publishing

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