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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYRight or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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