Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYAbove 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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