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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.