The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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