If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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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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Beauty will save the world.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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