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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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