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| Fyodor Dostoevsky
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. 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. If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness. If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers. It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. It's not God that I don't accept, alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. Realists do not fear the results of their study. Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. The formula "Two and two make five" is not without its attractions. The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist. The soul is healed by being with children. There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. 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. Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. |
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