To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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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