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“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment.”
― Dostoievski

“La mentira es el único privilegio del hombre sobre todos los animales" - Crimen y Castigo”
― Fiodor M. Dostoievski

“El secreto de la existencia no consiste solamente en vivir, sino en saber para que se vive.”
― Fedor Dostoievski

“La belleza es algo misterioso y terrible. Ahí luchan la maldad y la bondad, y su campo de batalla es el corazón del hombre”
― Fedor Dostoievsky

“La cuestión principal que se tratará en todas las partes de este libro es la misma que me ha hecho sufrir consciente o inconscientemente durante toda mi vida: la existencia de Dios”
― Fiódor Dostoievski.

“No podría expresarme mejor su desprecio que dejándome hablar libremente y sin censura de mi amor.”
― Dostoievski

“En todos los tiempos, el hombre honrado es un cobarde y un esclavo”
― Fiodor Dostoievski

“El hombre sólo piensa en su sufrimiento, no se detiene a pensar en su felicidad. Si pensara también en su felicidad, vería que todas las etapas de su vida tuvieron momentos felices”
― Fiodor Dostoievski

“¿Por qué no nos tratamos unos a otros como hermanos? ¿Por qué hasta el hombre más bueno disimula y calla en presencia de otro? ¿Por qué no decir sin rodeos lo que tiene uno en el corazón, inmediatamente, cuando sabe uno que su palabra no se la llevará el viento? ¿Por qué parecer más adusto de lo que uno es en realidad? Es como si cada cual temiera violentar los propios sentimientos si los expresa libremente.

—Noches blancas, Dostoievski—”
― Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“Había otra cosa que me hacía sufrir: “¡Yo soy uno, mientras ellos, son todos!”
― Fiodor Dostoievski

“El dolor y el sufrimiento son siempre inevitables para una gran inteligencia y un corazón profundo. Los hombres realmente grandes, creo, tienen una gran tristeza en la tierra.”
― Fiódor Dostoievski

“–Los intelectuales de hoy en día son comentaristas, opinadores.”
― Martin Mazora, El doble y sus copias. Perón y Dostoievski (Novela)

“Tenemos que meterlo al pelado en una tenaza, clavarle simultáneamente los garfios de la certeza y de la duda, así no sabrá si, en realidad, tiene o no tiene ese as,”
― Martin Mazora, El doble y sus copias. Perón y Dostoievski (Novela)

“No amaba ni apreciaba otra cosa que su propia persona, su paz y su comodidad por encima de todo en el mundo, como corresponde a un hombre de alta educación.”
― FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI, El idiota: Clásicos de la literatura

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“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 a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man's disillusionment -- still I should want to live. Having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn away from it till I had drained it! At thirty though, I shall be sure to leave the cup even if I've not emptied it, and turn away -- where I don't know. But till I am thirty I know that my youth will triumph over everything -- every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I've asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that could overcome this frantic thirst for life. And I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is until I am thirty.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky