If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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