I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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