To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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