The soul is healed by being with children.
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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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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.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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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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