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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYKilling myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYA hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYAbove 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYRight or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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