Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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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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