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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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 beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Beauty will save the world.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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