Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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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