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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Beauty will save the world.
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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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