To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Beauty will save the world.
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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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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