Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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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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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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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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