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.
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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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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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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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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