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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: top 200 quotes
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Beauty (n.) is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
Beauty (n.) is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Love (n.) enables one to live even without happiness.
Love (n.) is a mode of dominating someone until they have totally submitted.
Love (n.) is a movement toward the preservation or creation of a moral order that reveals the good in heroes and saves them from chaos and nihilism.
Love (n.) is an active love which embraces the concrete individual rather than the abstract masses.
Love (n.) is decomposed into two elements, sensuality and pity, both of which tend toward extremes, know no measure, obey no higher power, and whose scorching power reduces the individual to ashes. To make them more perceptible a lover nearly always loves two objects at the same time.
Love (n.) is never a relaxation for the body or a rest for the soul.
Love (n.) is a priceless treasure with which you can buy the whole world and redeem not only your own sins, but also other people's.
Love's (n.) mere presence enables one to do without happiness. Even with sorrow life is sweet.
Love (n.) is a thing which, when one is no longer able to do it, hell is the suffering that comes from the consciousness.
Love (n.) is able to attain the divine mystery in all things if one loves all things. For then one's ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and one's mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
Love (n.) is hard to learn and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
to Love (n.) is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Love (n.) , on our earth, can only be done with suffering and through suffering.
Freedom (n.) is the solitary and calm awareness of strength.
Freedom (n.) is the most insupportable of all things for a man and a human society.
Freedom (n.) is a condition where, if man finds himself therein, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Consciousness (n.) is a real, thorough sickness when exercised to excess.
Consciousness's (n.) sole origin is suffering.
Consciousness (n.) is higher than life.
Consciousness (n.) is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness..
Mathematics (n.) is a challenge to free will, which is entirely unnecessary in determining that twice two is four.
Mathematics (n.) is of course quite nice. Two and two make four is an excellent thing. But to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
The Hero (n.) is he who masters the grey everyday.
Escape (n.) is best averted by making sure a prisoner never knows he's in prison.
Life (n.) is not just about staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Life (n.) is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Life (n.) is first imitated by art, then life will imitate art, and then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Life (n.) is the only thing that matters. The continuous, eternal process of discovering life, and not the discovery itself.
Life (n.) is in ourselves and not in the external.
Life (n.) is a thing one must love before loving its meaning.
Truth (n.) is always implausible. To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
Truth (n.) is that alone which remains while everything passes.
Happiness (n.) is attained by him who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Happiness (n.) does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Happiness (n.) lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
Happiness (n.) is to know the source of unhappiness.
Happiness (n.) is the fulfilling of the purpose of existence.