Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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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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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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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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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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 did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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