It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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