It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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 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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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