I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWe 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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