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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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 there is no God, everything is permitted.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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