Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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