Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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