I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Beauty will save the world.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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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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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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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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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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