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 DOSTOEVSKYNothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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