Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings"
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"You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"- 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."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"There's something here, my dear boy, that you don't understand yet. A man will fall in love with some beauty, with a woman's body, or even a part of a woman's body (a sensualist can understand that) and he'll abandon his own children for her, sell his father and mother, and his country, Russia, too. If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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