A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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