If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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