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 love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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 you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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 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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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