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161 " You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Brothers Karamazov
162 " How good life is when one does something good and just! "
163 " 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 Dostoevsky
164 " I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
165 " At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , Notes from Underground
166 " I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them! "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
167 " I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way. "
168 " May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed... "
169 " If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning. "
170 " Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past... "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , White Nights
171 " Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , Crime and Punishment
172 " I want to suffer so that I may love. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
173 " Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. "
174 " She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Insulted and Humiliated
175 " 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. "
176 " Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I've taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I've become a man! "
177 " Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch? "
178 " So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy. They suffer, of course… but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? "
179 " They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? "
180 " Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions. "