The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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 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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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