Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe soul is healed by being with children.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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 awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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