I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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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 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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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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