When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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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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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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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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