To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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