A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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