Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Beauty will save the world.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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 grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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