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Letter "F" » Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
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«If there is no immortality, there is no virtue»
«We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Eternity
| Keywords:
bathhouse, conception, corner, grimy, spiders, the country, vast
«The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attractions, formula, formulas, The Attractions, The Formula
«?There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.?»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conquering, enslaving, interests, of their own, rebels, The Miracle
«Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.»
«I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born»
«Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Determination,
Ideas,
Living
| Keywords:
surrounded
«The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being? can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilized, divinities, divinity, divinity of Christ, Jesus Christ, pressing, rests, Son, Son of, Son of God, therein, the Son
«It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.»
«Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
deprived, deprived of, rave, raved, raves, raving, ravings, raving mad, stark, starkest
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