How To Use Dostoyevsky In A Sentence
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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
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Dostoyevsky was among the few who grasped the momentousness of the change that Machiavelli initiated in the West's conception of diablerie.
Barack Obama, Shaman
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Given Bernhard's debt to Dostoyevsky and other twentieth-century monologists, the question is: what is unique about Bernhard's fictive universe?
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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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
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I'd like to think that the great writers - Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Fitzgerald - didn't have to deal with the gap in the same way we shlepper-writers do.
Marc Klein: Suburban Girl Writer/Director: Confronting the Artistic Gap
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What’s more, she read some of them, from Proust to Dostoyevsky to Freud to Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Lincoln (given to her by husband Arthur Miller), collecting a library of 400 books.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Leah Hager Cohen on The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Artists by Donald Friedman: When we think of such heavyweights as Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Yeats and Proust — all represented in these pages — we may think of them with reverence; certainly we view their works as being abidingly and immutably rooted in language, founded on words.
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Perhaps Dostoyevsky owes his unique brand of confrontational apologetics to this messy faith.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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You can be sincere and still be stupid. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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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
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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In Dostoyevsky's day, urban radicals influenced by Marx and emboldened by Bakunin went out into the countryside proclaiming the doctrines of socialism and syndicalist anarchism, to little effect.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture, in the sense that the previous editors presumed to be able to second-guess how Dostoyevsky's text would have looked were he to have written it at the time of republication, somewhat like those "plain text" editions of Shakespeare.
Languagehat.com: DOSTOEVSKY AND RUSSIAN PUNCTUATION.
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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When I read her boast that she sneaked Dostoyevsky into fashion shoots hidden in Cosmo (so as not to embarrass the other girls), my worst fears were confirmed.
She Reads Dostoyevski You Know ...
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
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The flame of truism burns bright in Shane's love for Dostoyevsky's kind of Crime & Punishment.
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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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Compassion is the chief law of human existence. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To a man and a woman, they vivify Dostoyevsky's wildly diverse and possessed-by-inner-demons figures.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours!
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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
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Tolstoy particularly reprehended the widely held view of Dostoyevsky as a ‘prophet and saint,’ someone immersed in the conflict between Good and Evil.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Compassion is the chief law of human existence. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson.
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Dostoyevsky said, " If God didn't exist, everything would be possible.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. Fyodor Dostoyevsky