It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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 there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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