What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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 say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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