Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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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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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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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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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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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 will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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