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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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