It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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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