It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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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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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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