The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTalking 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.
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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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 is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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Beauty will save the world.
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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