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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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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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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 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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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