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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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 soul is healed by being with children.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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