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“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...'You never can tell...' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. ”
“People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call trust is really just giving up on trying to understan...”
“There isn't any doubt I make strange combinations, but what to do on that problem?”
“A valid answer comes when the question is lived.”
“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
“[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.”
“They think I make God angry. I hate that they think this. I hate them for thinking it. Why would you decide to worship an angry God anyway?”
“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
“If it makes God so freaking mad, why does it feel so good?”
“It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it has not deprived anyone of the hope of attaining it, and it has left people running in the deserts ...”
“I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so ...”
“I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our...”
“The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.”
“People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)”
“And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.”
“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.”
“She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts”
“Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty.”
