I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The soul is healed by being with children.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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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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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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