When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYKilling myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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