I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBesides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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