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Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Valentine's Day

1821–1881 Russia

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12 quotes

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)

... the prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

The Idiot (1868)

"They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."

Crime and punishment (1866)

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles.

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

I have seen the truth... It is not as though I had invented it with my mind. I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.... In one day, one hour, everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love.

Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.