Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPain 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Beauty will save the world.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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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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