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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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