The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou can be sincere and still be stupid.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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 am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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