Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything. "
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Acceptance
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" Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. "
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love , Lies
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" What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. "
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Love , Hell
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" The soul is healed by being with children. "
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Children , Healing
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" I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. "
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Humanity
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" To love someone means to see them as God intended them. "
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Love
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" To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. "
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Love
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" Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. "
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Love
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" Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal. "
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Love
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" But how could you live and have no story to tell? "
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Life , Story
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" Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. "
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Philosophy , Wisdom , Life
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" You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser? "
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Stupidity , Life
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" Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real; because at last I have cursed myself; because after my fantastic nights I have moments of returning sobriety, which are awful! Meanwhile, you hear the whirl and roar of the crowd in the vortex of life around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is not forbidden, that their life does not float away like a dream, like a vision; that their life is being eternally renewed, eternally youthful, and not one hour of it is the same as another; while fancy is so spiritless, monotonous to vulgarity and easily scared, the slave of shadows, of the idea, the slave of the first cloud that shrouds the sun... One feels that this inexhaustible fancy is weary at last and worn out with continual exercise, because one is growing into manhood, outgrowing one's old ideals: they are being shattered into fragments, into dust; if there is no other life one must build one up from the fragments. And meanwhile the soul longs and craves for something else! And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into flame, to warm his chilled heart by the rekindled fire, and to rouse up in it again all that was so sweet, that touched his heart, that set his blood boiling, drew tears from his eyes, and so luxuriously deceived him! "
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Dreams , Fantasy
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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11-11-1821 09-02-1881 Novelist, Philosopher citation
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