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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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 love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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