Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced, in fact, that everything is disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment – still I should want to live and, having once tried of the cup, I would not turn from it until I have drained it!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Love, Faith, Chaos, Hope, Desire
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“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inventive Genius, Misunderstood Brilliance, Careers, Creativity, Success, Fools
Fyodor Dostoevsky Inventive Genius, Misunderstood Brilliance, Careers, Creativity, Success, Fools“Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty Necessity, Humanity Secret, Beauty, Humanity, Life, Secret
Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Necessity, Humanity Secret, Beauty, Humanity, Life, Secret“Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tragic Reality, Disturbing Irony, Blood, Rivers, Reality, Irony
Fyodor Dostoevsky Tragic Reality, Disturbing Irony, Blood, Rivers, Reality, Irony“Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Error, Truth, Learning, Wisdom, Humility, Personal Growth
Fyodor Dostoevsky Error, Truth, Learning, Wisdom, Humility, Personal Growth“For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Woman, Love, Salvation, Resurrection, Perfection, Redemption
Fyodor Dostoevsky Woman, Love, Salvation, Resurrection, Perfection, Redemption“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Child Wisdom, Adult Ignorance, Child, Wisdom, Advice, Ignorance
Fyodor Dostoevsky Child Wisdom, Adult Ignorance, Child, Wisdom, Advice, Ignorance“One can’t understand everything at once, we can’t begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan’t understand them thoroughly.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perfection, Learning, Ignorance, Growth, Understanding, Knowledge
Fyodor Dostoevsky Perfection, Learning, Ignorance, Growth, Understanding, Knowledge“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Communication, Vulnerability, Fear, Silence, Expression, Personal Struggle
Fyodor Dostoevsky Communication, Vulnerability, Fear, Silence, Expression, Personal Struggle“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Growth, Personal Change, Ideals, Rebuilding Life, Transformation, Self-discovery
Fyodor Dostoevsky Growth, Personal Change, Ideals, Rebuilding Life, Transformation, Self-discovery“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain, Mystery, Ache, Suffering, Emotion, Desire
Fyodor Dostoevsky Pain, Mystery, Ache, Suffering, Emotion, Desire“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope, Life, Hell, Dante, Despair, Faith
Fyodor Dostoevsky Hope, Life, Hell, Dante, Despair, Faith“To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independence, Freedom, Path, Identity, Choices, Self
Fyodor Dostoevsky Independence, Freedom, Path, Identity, Choices, Self“I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Existence Doubt, Inner Identity, Existence, Identity, Doubt, Inner
Fyodor Dostoevsky Existence Doubt, Inner Identity, Existence, Identity, Doubt, Inner“For if there’s no everlasting God, there’s no such thing as virtue, and there’s no need of it.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
God, Virtue, Faith, Morality, Existence, Eternity
Fyodor Dostoevsky God, Virtue, Faith, Morality, Existence, Eternity“Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Silent Understanding, Unspoken Bond, Understanding, Bond, Silent, Unspoken
Fyodor Dostoevsky Silent Understanding, Unspoken Bond, Understanding, Bond, Silent, Unspoken“Woe to the man who offends a small child!” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Child Protection, Innocence Offense, Child, Protection, Innocence, Offense
Fyodor Dostoevsky Child Protection, Innocence Offense, Child, Protection, Innocence, Offense“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Higher Idea, Immortal Soul, Idea, Immortality, Soul, Higher
Fyodor Dostoevsky Higher Idea, Immortal Soul, Idea, Immortality, Soul, Higher“Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self Illusion, Joyful Deception, Illusion, Deception, Self, Joyful
Fyodor Dostoevsky Self Illusion, Joyful Deception, Illusion, Deception, Self, Joyful“You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can’t even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth, Mistakes, Self-discovery, Identity, Wisdom, Learning
Fyodor Dostoevsky Truth, Mistakes, Self-discovery, Identity, Wisdom, Learning