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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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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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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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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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