I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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