You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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