A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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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 sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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