This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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