Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Woe to the man who offends a small child! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated… – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who’re best able to decieve themselves. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- …there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- I don’t need you to tell me I’m not well, though I don’t really know what’s wrong with me; I think I’m five times healthier than you are. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 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
- Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky