Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYKilling myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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Talking 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.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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