Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

– What is a Socialist? – That’s when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

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–you wouldn’t have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

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

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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

Men

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… 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.

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… the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

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… what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

Life

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… you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

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… you simply can’t imagine what men will say!

Conversation

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…, twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Four

Gentleman

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